Skuets

Tiny silver skewers (or skuets) were used to serve small savoury tit-bits in the sixteenth century. These were generally stuck decoratively through the crust of a raised pie (the Gloucester Royal Pie was ornamented with crayfish on gold skewers), or sometimes surrounded a ragoût or a dish of birds, in which case they were generally filled with the cut livers of the birds, and cockscombs or small pieces of breaded sweetbreads.

Tiny skewers filled with fried and sliced chicken or duck livers and two or three small mushrooms are often served as savouries, each lying along a strip of buttered toast.