The Pleasures of the Table

Gastronomy from ancient days to modern times — the feasts of Greece and Rome, the great chefs and their schools, the literature of the table, and Ellwanger's own views on the aesthetics of dinner-giving.

Old English Dishes

21 pages in this part of The Pleasures of the Table.

Old English Dishes (TH In the olde time When Beefe)

TH "In the olde time, When Beefe, Bread & Beere, Was honest mens cheere, and welcome and spare not; And John and his Joane, Did live of…

Old English Dishes (Age reader In this respect it)

age reader. In this respect it differs largely from the olden works on gardening, through whose leaves still wantons the breeze of June…

Old English Dishes: French

Earliest of the English works on cookery is Alexander Neckam's "De Utensilibus, or Treatise on Utensils," written at the close of the…

Old English Dishes: France

The English, four and five hundred years ago, had four meals daily,-breakfast at seven, dinner at ten, supper at four, and livery at eight…

Old English Dishes: Salt

Mustard | is metest with alle maner salt herynge, Salt fysche, salt Congur, samoun, with sparlynge, Salt ele, salt makerelle, & also withe…

Old English Dishes: Whene'er

Then all of us prepare to rise And hold our bibs before our eyes And be prepared for some surprise When father carves the duck. "He braces…

Old English Dishes: Take

In the "Kalendare de Potages dyuers" appears this recipe for A goos in hogepotte: "Take a Goos, & make hure clene, & hacke hyre to…

Old English Dishes: Oystres

That excellent dish civet of hare was termed Harys in Cyueye, saffron, ale, and vinegar being then utilised in its preparation. Pain perdu…

Old English Dishes: Christmas

The many carols on the boar's head and on ale which have come down to us from old MSS. show in what request the one stood as a viand and…

Old English Dishes: Cookery

An olden Christmas feast wherein the wild boar forms the pièce de résistance is also figured in King's "Art of Cookery," the only English…

Old English Dishes: Markham

The seventeenth century was prolific of cook-books, most of which continued to republish the ancient recipes, with but slight augmentations…

Old English Dishes (For the manufacture of all)

for the manufacture of all manner of wines and beverages. Puddings, pies, and tarts were still more familiar then than now. Of pies there…

Old English Dishes: Grog

The punch-bowl or wassail-bowl, the goddard, caudle-cup and posset-pot, were all in use in England in olden days-punch, or "pauch,"…

Old English Dishes: Mead

Mead, the favourite tipple of Queen Bess, was made by boiling honey and water together, with quantities of spices, herbs, and lemons; when…

Old English Dishes: Pepys

The "Diary" of Mr. Pepys says nothing of the mornings after his dinners—the true test of a generous repast. It is just as well, therefore…

Old English Dishes: Charles

To the rough sickle, and the crook'd scythe, Drink, frolic boys, till all be blythe. " The era of Queen Anne, a noted gourmande, who…

Old English Dishes: Cooking

In 1730 appeared "The Compleat Practical Cook, or A new System of the whole Art and Mystery of Cooking," a work with sixty curious…

Old English Dishes: Closet

The Good Housewife's Closet of Provision, 1589.

Old English Dishes: School

The School of Grace, or A Book of Nurture, 1680.

Old English Dishes: Housekeeper

Mrs. Powel's Art of Cookery, 1811.

Old English Dishes: Compleat

That the works referred to, where one has the facilities of consulting them and the patience to peruse them, are not entirely lacking in…

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