Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1910 — Duties of Old-Time Carrera. [ARTICLE]

Duties of Old-Time Carrera.

•—At the formal banquet of the sixteenth century the man who carved the meat was bound with the red tape of precedent. When carving for distinguished guests he had to remember that certain parts of the birds or meat must be set aside. In carving for his lord and lady he was expected to exercise great discretion In the size of the pieces he sent around, “for ladles will be soon angry and their thoughts soon changed, and some lords are soon pleased and some not. as they be of complexion." He was expected to have the rules both of the kitchen and the peerage at his knife’s end. A pike, for instance, must be dished up whole for a lord, and In slices for commoner folk. The rank of his diners, too, determined whether a pig was to be served up whole, sliced, plain or with gold leaf, or whether new bread or bread three days old should be eaten.