Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1912 — Game for an Elizabethan Banquet. [ARTICLE]

Game for an Elizabethan Banquet.

Peacock pie, which figured at the Elizabethan banquet held to celebrate Midsummer day. Is not a delicacy likely to tempt all epicures. Still, most of us would rather eat peacock than some of the other birds consumed by our forefathers. In the thirteenth century the heron, the crane, the crow, the stork, the cormorant and the bittern were considered excellent for the table. Yet the hare and the partridge were despised as food, and neither was ever served in the houses of the wealthy.