Series 2 > Household book of Lady Grisell Baillie

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THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[Bills of Fare]
2nd Service
partrage and wood cock young Ducklins for end dishes
the midle dish aple py with cream
2 ashiets on each side, rague with sweat bread, Aspara-
grass rost oysters on Squers and marrow pudine
Deseart Jelly ratafia cream sweat meats frute etc.
Mr. Dundas of that Ilk 1 Jan. 25 Mr. Dundas Advocate 2
Sr. G. Eliot3 and Lady
At the 2 ends soup and rost Mutton pickles in the
midle, ane ashet on each side, salt toung and fricassy of
rabets, relieff of salmond.
2nd Course
ends 2 Ducklins, a Rague of sweatbread pallets etc.,
Midle dish aple py with cream
2 ashets on each side, Tanzie, fricassy ousters, caparata,
Lamb.
Deseart, confections, frute, etc.
April 12, 1725. At the Duke Chandes4 howse at
Cannons. A Duson at Table.
1st. a broun soup and a white soup, fricassy, pudine,
broun rague, and collopes, ane Eparn in the Midle.
1 Mr. George Dundas of that Ilk, advocate, at this time M.P. for Linlith¬
gowshire, married Alison, daughter of Brigadier-General Bruce of Kennet.
2 Mr. Robert Dundas, advocate, eldest son of Robert Dundas of Arniston.
He was at this time M.P. for the county of Edinburgh. He became Lord
President of the Court of Session in 1748.
3 Sir Gilbert Elliot of Minto, second Baronet, son of Sir Gilbert Elliot. (See
p. 221.) He was at this time M.P. for Roxburgh, afterwards a Lord of Session
as Lord Minto. He was interested in music, arboriculture, etc. He married
Helen Stewart of Allanbank. His daughter Jean was the authoress of the
‘ Flowers of the Forest.’
■* Duke of Chandos. James Brydges, first Duke of Chandos, built a magnifi¬
cent house at Canons near Edgware, where this dinner , took place. According
to Defoe there were one hundred and twenty persons in family, and the choir
entertained them every day at dinner. Pope is said to have drawn his Timon’s
Villa from this house.