A true & exact history of the island of BarbadosLigon, Richard
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A true & exact history of the island of Barbados
Ligon, Richard
Barbados -- Description and travel; Plants -- Barbados; Sugar -- Manufacture and refining -- Barbados
First then (because beefe being the greatest rarity in the Iland,
especially such as this is) I will begin with it, and of that sort
there are these dishes at either messe, a Rompe boyl’d, a Chine
roasted, a large piece of the brest roasted, the Cheeks bak’d, of
which is a dish to either messe, the tongue and part of the tripes
minc’t for Pyes, season’d with sweet Herbs finely minc’t, suet,
Spice and Currans; the legges, pallets and other ingredients for an
Olio Podrido to either messe, a dish of Marrow bones, so here are
14 dishes at the Table and all of beef: and this he intends as the
great Regalio, to which he invites his fellow planters; who having
well eaten of it, the dishes are taken away, and another Course
brought in, which is a Potato pudding, a dish of Scots Collips of a
legge of Porke, as good as any in the world, a fricacy of the same,
a dish of boyl’d Chickens, a shoulder of a young Goate drest with
his bloud and tyme, a Kid with a pudding in his belly, a sucking
pig, which is there the fattest whitest & sweetest in the world,
with the poynant sauce of the brains, salt, sage, and Nutmeg done
with Claret wine, a shoulder of mutton which is there a rare dish,
a Pasty of the side of a young Goate, and a side of a fat young
Shot upon it, well season’d with Pepper and salt, and with some
Nutmeg, a loyne of Veale, to which there wants no sauce being so
well furnisht with Oranges, Lymons, and Lymes, three young Turkies
in a dish, two Capons, of which sort I have seen some extreame
large and very fat, two henns with egges in a dish, four Ducklings,
eight Turtle doves, and three Rabbets; and for cold bak’t meats,
two Muscovie Ducks larded, and season’d well with pepper and salt:
and these being taken off the Table, another course is set on, and
that is of _Westphalia_ or Spanish bacon, dried Neats Tongues,
Botargo, pickled Oysters, Caviare, Anchoves, Olives, and (intermixt
with these) Custards, Creams, some alone, some with preserves of
Plantines, Bonano, Guavers, put in, and those preserv’d alone by
themselves, Cheese-cakes, Puffes, which are to be made with English
flower, and bread; for the Cassavie will not serve for this kind of
Cookerie; sometimes Tansies, sometimes Froizes, or Amulets, and for
fruite, Plantines, Bonanoes, Guavers, Milons, prickled Peare, Anchove
Peare, prickled Apple, Custard Apple, water Milons, and Pines worth
all that went before. To this meat you seldome faile of this drink,
Mobbie, Beveridge, Brandy, kill-Divell, Drink of the Plantine, Claret
wine, White wine, and Renish wine, Sherry, Canary, Red sack, wine
of _Fiall_, with all Spirits that come from _England_; and with all
this, you shall finde as cheerfull a look, and as hearty a welcome,
as any man can give to his best friends. And so much for a Feast of
an inland Plantation.
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