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What to eat after a long morning's work in the Star Chamber
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What to eat after a long morning's work in the Star Chamber

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Heather Wolfe

Well, if it’s fish Friday, the menu consisted of… fish! Fish, glorious fish. Thirty or more courses of fish, including oysters, ling, green fish, salt white herring, salt salmon, salmon, great pike, smaller pike, crayfish, roach, great carp, smaller carp, roasting…

Don't try this at home (unless you are a professional brewer)
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Don't try this at home (unless you are a professional brewer)

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Heather Wolfe

Here’s a little transcription exercise for our Crocodile readers: Folger MS V.a.429, fol. 29r. This is the title of a recipe in a book of culinary and medical receipts compiled between approximately 1675 and 1750 by a few generations of…