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packman

(16,296 posts) Mon Dec 22, 2014, 12:21 PM Dec 2014

A Christmas dinner menu

from 1660-

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I was going to try to give it a try, but was flummoxed about the pottage [thick stew] of caponets - young castrated roosters. Be damned if I am going to ask Alex, my butcher, if the roosters were castrated.

I think I'll stick to the spiral cut ham and cheesy potatoes.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/54243/39-dishes-first-christmas-menu-published-1660