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" At breakfast — half a sheep, a quarter of lamb, ten pullets, twelve chickens, three quarts of brandy, six quarts of mulled wine, seven dozen of eggs, with salad in proportion.^: At dinner — five ribs of beef, weight three stone ; one sheep, fiftysix... "
Belgravia - Page 345
1879
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A Memoir of the Life of Peter the Great

Sir John Barrow - Russia - 1834 - 344 pages
...is averred for truth by an eyewitness, who saw them eating, and had this bill from the landlord. At breakfast — half a sheep, a quarter of lamb, ten...twelve chickens, three quarts of brandy, six quarts of mulled wine, seven dozen of eggs, with salad in proportion. At dinner — five ribs of beef, weight...
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Memoirs of the court of England from ... 1688 to the death of ..., Volume 1

John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 530 pages
...said, on the authority of an eye-witness, to have devoured the following extraordinary meals : — At breakfast, half a sheep, a quarter of lamb, ten pullets,...twelve chickens, three quarts of brandy, six quarts of mulled wine, seven dozen of eggs, with salad in proportion : at dinner, — five ribs of beef, weight...
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Memoirs of the Court of England: From the Revolution in 1688 to ..., Volume 1

John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1843 - 532 pages
...said, on the authority of an eye-witness, to have devoured the following extraordinary meals : — At breakfast, half a sheep, a quarter of lamb, ten pullets,...twelve chickens, three quarts of brandy, six quarts of mulled wine, seven dozen of eggs, with salad in proportion : at dinner, — five ribs of beef, weight...
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Hints for the Table: Or, The Economy of Good Living. With a Few Words on Wines

John Timbs - Cookbooks - 1859 - 204 pages
...Portsmouth, the Czar and his party, twenty-one in number, stopped at Godalming, where they ate ; at breakfast, half a sheep, a quarter of lamb, ten pullets, twelve chickens, seven dozen of eggs, and salad in proportion, and drank three quarts of brandy, and six quarts of mulled...
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The book of days, a miscellany of popular antiquities, Volume 1

Robert Chambers - Chronology, Historical - 1862 - 880 pages
...and, according to the landlord's bill, which is preserved in the Bodleian Library, there consumed, at innocent ; the decree which condemns us is an unjust...but there is in heaven an august tribunal where the mulled wine, seven dozen of eggs, with salad in proportion : and at dinner, five ribs of beef, weighing...
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Leicester square; its associations and its worthies. With a sketch of Hunter ...

Tom Taylor - 1874 - 554 pages
...Godalming meals looks like good health as well as high spirits. The bill includes: at breakfast,—half a sheep, a quarter of lamb, ten pullets, twelve chickens, three quarts of brandy, six quarts of mulled wine, seven dozens of eggs, with salad in proportion; and at dinner,—five ribs of beef, weighing...
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A memoir of the life of Peter the Great [by sir J. Barrow].

sir John Barrow (bart.) - 1883 - 454 pages
...is averred for truth by an eye-witness, who saw them eating, and had this bill from the landlord. At breakfast — half a sheep, a quarter of lamb, ten...twelve chickens, three quarts of brandy, six quarts of mulled wine, seven dozen of eggs, with salad in proportion. At dinner — five ribs of beef, weight...
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Memoirs of the court of England during the reigns of William and Mary, Queen ...

John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 404 pages
...are said, on the authority of an eye-witness, to have devoured the following extraordinary meals : At breakfast, half a sheep, a quarter of lamb, ten pullets,...twelve chickens, three quarts of brandy, six quarts of mulled wine, seven dozen of eggs, with salad in proportion ; at dinner, five ribs of beef, weight three...
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Memoirs of the Court of England: During the Reigns of William and ..., Volume 1

John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 402 pages
...are said, on the authority of an eye-witness, to have devoured the following extraordinary meals: At breakfast, half a sheep, a quarter of lamb, ten pullets,...twelve chickens, three quarts of brandy, six quarts of mulled wine, seven dozen of eggs, with salad in proportion ; at dinner, five ribs of beef, weight three...
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Picturesque Surrey: A Portfolio of Sketches

Gibson Thompson, Duncan Moul - Surrey (England) - 1902 - 352 pages
...fare for breakfast and dinner are preserved in the Bodleian Library. The twenty-one visitors took for breakfast half a sheep, a quarter of lamb, ten pullets, twelve chickens, three quarts of brandy, sixty-nine quarts of mulled wine, and seven dozen eggs, " with salad in proportion"! The Allied Sovereigns...
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