Cakes & Ale A Dissertation on Banquets Interspersed with Various Recipes, More or Less Original, and anecdotes, mainly veracious

CHAPTER IV

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LUNCHEON

Why lunch?--Sir Henry Thompson on overdoing it--The children's dinner--City lunches--"Ye Olde Cheshyre Cheese"--Doctor Johnson--Ye pudding--A great fall in food--A snipe pudding--Skirt, not rump steak--Lancashire hot-pot--A Cape "brady" 34-43