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Article ENGLISH DIET IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. ← Page 2 of 5 →
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English Diet In The Seventeenth Century.
thus tells the lover of the savory food how he may fued it to perfection — " Shut up a young boar ( of a year and a half old ) in a little room about harvest time , feeding him with nothing but sweet whey and giving him every morning clean straw to lie uoon . " And now for the tragedy—for tlie death of the boar . — " After he is brawned for your turn , thrust a knife into one of his flanks , and let him rim with it till he die : othersgentlbait him with muzzled dogsThe cooks
, y . Roman thrust a hot iron into his side , ancl then run him to death ; thinking thereby that his flesh waxed tenderer , ancl his brawn firmer . " Were a choice of these deaths submitted to the boar himself , he would , we think , be considerabl y puzzled to make his election—be much perplexed by the separate claims ofthe knife—the gentle baiting , and the hot iron ! I OKK AND BACON . —In the clays of Pliny , the hog more than realized the negro s notion of a gentlemanfor in addition to his exemption from
, work , he was fed on " milk and figs . " Galen , according to Muffett , praises the hog , for that inwardl y he resembleth no creature so much as a man . _ " For the colour and substance of his flesh , the shape , figure , connexion , suspension , proportion , and situation of his entrails , differ little or nothing from man ' s body ; and besides that , when he is of a
just growth , his temper is also most like to ours . " Which similitude we receive as an odd recommendation to powder Signor Hog ancl serve him at our tables . However , there have been great lovers of pork amono - great men . Leo the Tenth " bestowed two thousand crowns a year in sausages , mingling the brains of peacocks , with pork ' s flesh , pepper and other spices , which were afterwards called Leonis incisa—Leo ' s sausages . " For all this , Doctor Muffett , speaking conscientiously has word for swine if it be eaten fresh
no good ; , says he , " it is as dangerous as fresh sprats to an aguish stomach ; " and if corned , " it is naught , unless qualified with mustard ancl sorrel sauce . " As for Leo ' s love of the ho ° * that might arise—though history charges him not with bigotry—from his hatred of the Jews . Ben Jonson ' s Zeal-of-the-Land Busy , " by the public eating of swine ' s flesh , professed a hate and lothing of Judaism " and there may Jiave been some such goodlmotive in the Leonis incisa
y . VENISON . —The flesh of deer " taken in chase in the winter time , " is aii excellent dish , according to the Doctor , thus prepared . — " Parboil it in Rhenish wine , wherein ripe juniper berries were sodden : then , having taken it out and sliced it , season every slice or cut thereof with pepper , salt , cloves , mace , ginger , and nutmegs , of each a sufficient quantity last of all , make it in a paste with good store of sweet butter , and it will prove a most excellent meat to be eaten cold . "
HEDGEHOG . — " When I considered , " says Muffett , " how cleanly the hedgehog feedeth , namely upon cow ' s milk ( if he can come by it ) or upon fruit ancl mast , I saw no reason to discontinue this meat any longer upon some fantastical dislike , sith books , nature , and experience hath commended it unto us . " Nothing that flies , walks , or crawls , hath been more shamefully slandered than the poor inoffensive hedgehog ! Poor wretch ! for ages he hath been accused of putting himself out to wetother
nurse upon men ' s cows , when a glance at the structure of its mouth would convince common sense of its innocence . The hedgeho " cannot , if it would , sponge upon the " milky mother of the herd . " And yet to this day do English swains beat , bruise , torture , stamp into paste , the hapless wretch , falsely accused of drinking at other men ' s expense ' when not a drop has wet its guiltless lips . Tens of thousands of lied-jehogs have been sent to their graves with the brand of ti ppler on their VOL . v . „ ,.
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
English Diet In The Seventeenth Century.
thus tells the lover of the savory food how he may fued it to perfection — " Shut up a young boar ( of a year and a half old ) in a little room about harvest time , feeding him with nothing but sweet whey and giving him every morning clean straw to lie uoon . " And now for the tragedy—for tlie death of the boar . — " After he is brawned for your turn , thrust a knife into one of his flanks , and let him rim with it till he die : othersgentlbait him with muzzled dogsThe cooks
, y . Roman thrust a hot iron into his side , ancl then run him to death ; thinking thereby that his flesh waxed tenderer , ancl his brawn firmer . " Were a choice of these deaths submitted to the boar himself , he would , we think , be considerabl y puzzled to make his election—be much perplexed by the separate claims ofthe knife—the gentle baiting , and the hot iron ! I OKK AND BACON . —In the clays of Pliny , the hog more than realized the negro s notion of a gentlemanfor in addition to his exemption from
, work , he was fed on " milk and figs . " Galen , according to Muffett , praises the hog , for that inwardl y he resembleth no creature so much as a man . _ " For the colour and substance of his flesh , the shape , figure , connexion , suspension , proportion , and situation of his entrails , differ little or nothing from man ' s body ; and besides that , when he is of a
just growth , his temper is also most like to ours . " Which similitude we receive as an odd recommendation to powder Signor Hog ancl serve him at our tables . However , there have been great lovers of pork amono - great men . Leo the Tenth " bestowed two thousand crowns a year in sausages , mingling the brains of peacocks , with pork ' s flesh , pepper and other spices , which were afterwards called Leonis incisa—Leo ' s sausages . " For all this , Doctor Muffett , speaking conscientiously has word for swine if it be eaten fresh
no good ; , says he , " it is as dangerous as fresh sprats to an aguish stomach ; " and if corned , " it is naught , unless qualified with mustard ancl sorrel sauce . " As for Leo ' s love of the ho ° * that might arise—though history charges him not with bigotry—from his hatred of the Jews . Ben Jonson ' s Zeal-of-the-Land Busy , " by the public eating of swine ' s flesh , professed a hate and lothing of Judaism " and there may Jiave been some such goodlmotive in the Leonis incisa
y . VENISON . —The flesh of deer " taken in chase in the winter time , " is aii excellent dish , according to the Doctor , thus prepared . — " Parboil it in Rhenish wine , wherein ripe juniper berries were sodden : then , having taken it out and sliced it , season every slice or cut thereof with pepper , salt , cloves , mace , ginger , and nutmegs , of each a sufficient quantity last of all , make it in a paste with good store of sweet butter , and it will prove a most excellent meat to be eaten cold . "
HEDGEHOG . — " When I considered , " says Muffett , " how cleanly the hedgehog feedeth , namely upon cow ' s milk ( if he can come by it ) or upon fruit ancl mast , I saw no reason to discontinue this meat any longer upon some fantastical dislike , sith books , nature , and experience hath commended it unto us . " Nothing that flies , walks , or crawls , hath been more shamefully slandered than the poor inoffensive hedgehog ! Poor wretch ! for ages he hath been accused of putting himself out to wetother
nurse upon men ' s cows , when a glance at the structure of its mouth would convince common sense of its innocence . The hedgeho " cannot , if it would , sponge upon the " milky mother of the herd . " And yet to this day do English swains beat , bruise , torture , stamp into paste , the hapless wretch , falsely accused of drinking at other men ' s expense ' when not a drop has wet its guiltless lips . Tens of thousands of lied-jehogs have been sent to their graves with the brand of ti ppler on their VOL . v . „ ,.