The Pleasures of the Table / An Account of Gastronomy from Ancient Days to Present Times. With a History of Its Literature, Schools, and Most Distinguished Artists; Together With Some Special Recipes, and Views Concerning the Aesthetics of Dinners and Dinner-giving

by George H. Ellwanger

With Skerrets, and the Lees of Coan Wine."

Fish and wild fowl, lampreys and shrimps, succeeded, washed down with brimmers of Cæcuban, Alban, Falernian, and vintages of Greece; and finally, as the feast and the night wore on,

"The Slaves behind in mighty Charger bore

A Crane in Pieces torn, and powder'd o'er

With Salt and Flour, and a white Gander's Liver,

Stuff'd fat with Figs, bespoke the curious Giver;

Besides the Wings of Hares, for, so it seems,

No man of Luxury the Back esteems.

Then saw we Black-birds with o'er roasted Breast,