AD65) Gustatio accompanied by honeyed wine Sweet dormice sprinkled with honey and poppy seeds Plums and pomegranate seeds Small birds, Beccaficos', in spiced egg yolk Fercula accompanied by Felarian wine Foods of the Zodiac Aries – chick peas, Taurus – beef, Gemini – kidneys, Cancer – crown of myrtle, Leo – African figs, Virgo – sterile sow's womb, Libra – scales of tarts and honey cakes, Scorpio – scorpion fish, Sagittarius – eyefish, Capricorn – lobster, Aquarius – goose, Pisces – two red mullets Roasted wild boar with dates suckled by cake Piglets stuffed with live thrushes Boiled whole pig stuffed with sausages and black pudding Mensa Secunda Pastry thrushes stuffed with raisins and nuts Quince apples and pork disguised as fowl and fish Oysters and scallops Snails Chapter Twenty-Seven We’re All Going on a Boar Hunt Down into the kitchens, into the sweat and steam, the hissing and crackling, the spitting and cursing and shouting, the fetching and carrying, the scraping and peeling and chopping and washing and salting and pounding, the squealing and chirping, a young lad came running on the morning of the Midwinter Feast.
