Catalogue of Brand Material.
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LOCALITY.
Boar's head (Christmas dinner) Windsor Castle,
Temple (i6th
Roast sirloin of beef (dinner) Plum pudding - - -
Everyone must stir - Turkey, eaten in -
Trade in, considerable Rum-punch (served in loving
cup at Christmas parties,
etc.) ... -
Ale-posset (breakfast dish for
guests, or supper at parties) Ale-posset (bread soaked in
milk, ale poured on it
while hot. Christmas Eve
supper) - - - - Wassail-bowl (Christmas cake
broken into the bowl, hot
ale poured on it, eaten with
spoons on Christmas Eve) Lambswool (roasted apples in
hot spiced ale) drunk on
Christmas Eve Toast and spiced ale, or toast
and mead (Christmas Eve
supper) - - - - Hot elderberry wine (Christ- mas Eve) ... Toast and cider (hot toast
broken into bowls, cider
poured on it, eaten with
spoons, breakfast, Christ- mas Day)
"Egg-hot," or " eggy-hot "
(eggs, hot beer, sugar, rum,
frothed up, Christmas Eve
supper) ... - Apples eaten ...
Apple enclosed in " mell " (last sheaf of corn) given to oldest servant - - - Cumberland.
Inner cent.). Queen's Coll., Oxford, Suffolk (Heugrave). General. General. Staffs.
East Anglia about 1585. Norfolk, 1 81 7.
Cumbd. and Westmd.
Cumbd. and Westmd.
Derbysh. (Milford).
Notts.
Notts.
Norfolk.
Suffolk.
Somerset, Dorset (
Devon (?),
Cornwall.
Devon (Moretonhamp-
stead).