FunnyJohn Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Not yet planned your Christmas Day feast? Here are some ideas: A BILL OF FARE FOR CHRISTMAS DAY AND HOW TO SET THE MEAT IN ORDEROysters1. A collar of brawn [pork that is rolled, tied, and boiled in wine and seasonings].2. Stewed Broth of Mutton marrow bones.3. A grand Sallet [salad].4. A pottage [thick stew] of caponets [young castrated roosters].5. A breast of veal in stoffado [stuffed veal].6. A boil'd partridge.7. A chine (a cut of meat containing backbone) of beef, or surloin roast. Here's May's recipe: To roast a Chine, Rib, Loin, Brisket, or Fillet of BeefDraw them with parsley, rosemary, tyme, sweet marjoram, sage, winter savory, or lemon, or plain without any of them, fresh or salt, as you please; broach it, or spit it, roast it and baste it with butter; a good chine of beef will ask six hours roasting. For the sauce take strait tops of rosemary, sage-leaves, picked parsley, tyme, and sweet marjoram; and strew them in wine vinegar, and the beef gravy; or otherways with gravy and juice of oranges and lemons. Sometimes for change in saucers of vinegar and pepper. 8. Minced pies.9. A Jegote [sausage] of mutton with anchove sauce.10. A made dish of sweet-bread (Here's a recipe from A New Booke of Cookerie by John Murrell, published in 1615: Boyle, or roast your Sweet-bread, and put into it a fewe Parboyld Currens, a minst Date, the yolkes of two new laid Egs, a piece of a Manchet grated fine. Season it with a little Pepper, Salt, Nutmeg, and Sugar, wring in the iuyce of an Orenge, or Lemon, and put it betweene two sheetes of puft-paste, or any other good Paste: and eyther bake it, or frye it, whether you please.)11. A swan roast.12. A pasty of venison.13. A kid with a pudding in his belly.14. A steak pie.15. A hanch of venison roasted.16. A turkey roast and stuck with cloves.17. A made dish of chickens in puff paste.18. Two bran geese roasted, one larded [larding is inserting or weaving strips of fat in the meat, sometimes with a needle].19. Two large capons, one larded.20. A Custard. And there's more at the link 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deangold Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 I certainly hope this is just the appetizers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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