reference: mason-1777

Asparagus is always a pureed cream soup, often made with onion. Sometimes served cold.

Boiled suet pudding with raisins, nutmeg and ginger, served with a wine sauce.

A plate of mixed bite-sized 'gobbet' pieces of, for instance, cooked meat, fish, poultry, with vegetables such as potato, beetroot, onions etc. 'The Art of Cook...

Skinned, chopped snakes, boiled with herbs. Known from several 18th Century sources. Snake also occurs in a Wedding Cake receipt from 1660.

Milk thickened with wheat or corn flour or with breadcrumb. Sweetened for sweet dishes, or pepper and salt for pale meats etc.