Fashions In Feeding Through The Ages and now the smell es exceeding well 'With mutton pasty and pie, Fork, plum broth, veal Pig, goose and and strong' bess, Christmas cheer, Poor Robin's dtmanack™ 1707, Ty would be difficult to find evi fence of Christmas dinners in the Stone Age; but long before" the annual from the Greek thrion, made of flour, honey, fruits, and fat.
Plum-pudding, however, belongs properly to a cold climate, A chet vice to the earth, Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome feasted at this eencon, So did th: old Celts, while the Teutons had feast of Hour's hend, with flagons of mead and ale. exquisitely boiled rice, with raisins stuck in it, as Christmas plum pudding; and a Cingalese colle-gue, being told to ornament his Christmas cake with a motto, piped on it in beautiful pink letters: "Prepare to meet thy Lord!
The Reign of the Pig As a Yuletide favourite the ple has had he longest reign. "It was special dish at the Roman Saturnalia, Martial say Tuto ihi focier bona Saturnatia parent.
Heads of wild boars from Hungary were for long a recognized Christmas dish; but the—glazed and bedecked "boar's b: ads" of to Some curious but meagre Christmas dinners of ten years ago might W given, The feast, however, of the notaries of Paris, at th: Cafe Voisin, 261, Rue Saint Honoré, on the 99th day of the siege, Christmas Day, 1870, has variety and some show of abundance. It looks as lavish as any menu of to-day, but there were some queer items the feast. day come from nowhere more wild than Yorkshire.
In "Poor Robin's Almanack" of 1707 beet takes preced.nce of pis gnd in England roast beef has been the favourite for the longest tims at the commoner's Christmas dine ner.
On the Christmas tables of the rich in England, however, many kinds of birds have been fashion ablo—peucock, cooked with cumin and ginger; pelican sitting on a nest with its young; cygnet, a royal dish; heron, bittern, and crome.
Turkeys and Geese Turkey came' from America in 0, end is mentioned In 1573 as mas husbandlio faro;" but is only during the last. half-cen-that it has ruled the roost epresents the _Cratehit taking the, goose for granted. Scott also mentions it:—
Auguste Escoffer, thy most famous living chef, was in Paris during the siege, and vouches the authenticity of the menu, Victor Hugo was in Paris, too, and wrote to a lady who had ed to keep a dinner appointaient:
would have killed Pegasus, and had him cooked, just to offer you 'a wing of horse."
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