Cookery. Obs. Also 5 led(e, let(te, lethe. In Combs. lete lardes, lete lory, of obscure origin and meaning. Cf. LEACH sb.1
c. 1390[?]. Form of Cury, lxviii. (1780), 38. Lete Lardes.
14[?]. Noble Bk. Cookry (Napier, 1882), 87. To mak ledlardes of iij coloures.
c. 1420. in Q. Eliz. Acad., 91. Lete lardes y-fryed.
c. 1420. Liber Cocorum (1862), 13. Lede lardes.
c. 1430. Two Cookery-bks., 17. Let lory. Ibid., 36. And ȝif þow wolt haue it Motley, take þre pottys, & make letlardys in eche. Ibid. (c. 1450), 85. Lethe lory.
