SC - Inexpensive Spices re:Personal recipes

[Alderton, Philippa]

Philip & Susan Troy wrote:

> >From the Viandier de Pierre Tirel, obscure younger brother of Guillaume
> Tirel, _not_ called Taillevent, c. 1384 (Unpublished translation by P.
> Troy, 1999) :
>
> "Faux Hachee de Boeuf en Faux Potage [Chopped Beef Stew] (snip)
> our King decided to show up at the last moment, and
> really wanted to try the dish,  (snip)
>
>  A final touch of color was added
> when one of our scribes, the Laird Aonghais Mac Donald, produced some
> brightly colored oiled paper, marked with his own clan heraldry, to wrap
> part of the Hachee in, to avoid drips on HM's velvet giacetta.
>
> Once people saw His Majesty eating the dish that way, everyone else had
> to try it like that too.

With Royal subscription, it would seem to me that you should have been able to
put His Majesty's arms, or the Royal arms, on the wrapping paper to signify that
fact, and possibly pass out little faux crowns of stiff gilded paper to honor
the occasion.wajdi

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