The art of dining, or, Gastronomy and gastronomers / by A. Hayward.

  • Hayward, A. (Abraham), 1801-1884.
Date:
1883
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Credit: The art of dining, or, Gastronomy and gastronomers / by A. Hayward. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    of this present age. Then were those days wherein were practised the triumphs and trophies of cookery.” One of these triumphs is the construction of a ship of confectionery, with guns charged with actual powder, and a castle of pies, containing live frogs and birds. After giving directions as to the firing of the guns, he proceeds :— “ This done, to sweeten the stink of powder, let the ladies take the egg-shells fall of sweet waters and throw them at each other. All dangers being seemingly over, by this time you may suppose they will desire to see what is in the pyes; where, lifting first the lid off one pye, out skip some frogs, which makes the ladies to skip and shreek; next after the other pye, whence come out the birds, who, by a natural instinct, flying in the light will put out the candles; so that, what with the flying birds and skipping frogs, the one above, the other beneath, will cause much delight and pleasure to the whole company: at length, the candles are lighted, and a banquet brought in, the musick sounds, and every one with much delight and content re- hearses their actions in the former passages ”—i. e. whilst the candles were out.—“ These were formerly the delights of the nobility before good housekeeping had left England, and the sword really acted that which was only counter- feited in such honest and laudable exercises as these.” Under Queen Anne, again, the gouty queen of gourmands, who bad Lister, one of the editors of the Apieius, for her pet physician, and who, in fact, achieved the highest honour of gastronomy by giving her name to a pudding, cookery certainly did not suffer from any lack of encouragement; but.