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From that storehouse of instruction and amusement, Nichols's _Anecdotes_,
vol. viii. pp. 293-304.
I take this opportunity of forwarding to you a curious memorandum which I
found in rummaging the papers of a "note-maker" of the last century. It
appears to be a bill of fare for the entertainment of a party, upon the
"flitch of bacon" being decreed to a happy couple. It is at Harrowgate, and
not at Dunmow, which would lead us to believe that this custom was not
confined to one county. The feast itself is almost as remarkable, as
regards its component parts, as that produced by Mr. Thackeray, in his
delightful "Lectures," as characteristic of polite feeding in Queen Anne's
reign:
"_June 25.--Mr. and Mrs. Liddal's Dinner at Green Dragon, Harrowgate,
on taking Fflitch Bacon Oath._
_Bill Fare._
Beans and bacon.
Cabbage, colliflower.
Three doz. chickens.
Two shoulders mutton, cowcumbers.
Two turbets.
Rump beef, &c. &c.
Goose and plumbpudding.
Quarter lamb, sallad.
Tarts, jellies, strawberries, cream.
Cherrys, syllabubs, and blomonge.
Leg lamb, spinnage.
Crawfish, pickled salmon.
Fryd tripe, calves' heads.
Gravy and Pease soup.
Two piggs.
Breast veal, ragoud.
Ice cream, pine apple.
Surloin beaf.
Pidgeons, green peas.
Lobsters, crabs.
Twelve red herrings, twenty-two dobils."