Pies containing live frogs and birds, a pastry stag that bleeds, exploding ships and castles

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Curious Cookbook: Viper Soup, Badger Ham, Stewed Sparrows and 100 More Historic Recipes

By Peter Ross

Published 2012

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Method

Triumphs and Trophies in cookery, to be used at Festival Times, as Twelfth-day, &c.

Make the likeness of a ship in paste-board [cardboard], with flags and streamers, the guns belonging to it of kickses [odds and ends], bind them about with packthread, and cover them with close <