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his brethren, together with furmity made from wheat. If eaten 
too freely, the flesh will breed melancholy. It should never be 
eaten in a hurry,” wrote James Payn, “as though it were a 
soup at a railway station. Like a moderately good picture at 
the Academy Exhibition it should be hung, and not too high.” 
If it only smelt as nice as it tastes, it would be a public boon, 
but often as the time comes for dressing it, the cook “ thinks as 
it ought to be put underground before it produces a pestilence, 
and puts her there, too.” Venison Panada will please the sick 
sportsman, this being a preparation of bread soaked, softened, 
and flavoured with a purée of venison. The famous Robin Hood 
said to Henry the Eighth in Sherwood Forest, “Sir, outlaws’ 
breakfast is venison, and therefore you must be content with 
such fare as we use. Then the king and queen sate down, and 
were served with venyson, and wyne, by Robin Hood and hys 
men, to theyre great contentacion.” 
** For, finer, or fatter 
Ne’er ranged in a forest, nor smoked on a platter. 
The haunch was a picture for painters to study, 
The fat was so white, and the lean was so ruddy.” 
Oliver Goldsmith’s Haunch of Venison. 
The name ‘“alderman’s walk” is given to the centre cut 
(long incision) of the haunch, where the most delicate slices are 
to be found. Venison pasty, formerly so much esteemed, owed 
its attraction chiefly to the currants placed between the layers 
of meat. Roger Bacon commended venison, “for,” said he, 
‘that which liveth long by his own nature maketh others also 
to live long.” In Borneo, the men may not eat the flesh of the 
deer, though it is allowed to the women and children. The 
reason given is that if the men were to eat venison they would 
become as timid as deer. Rebecca, of the Old Testament, must 
have cooked with considerable skill, as she converted the kid 
into savoury meat so nearly resembling venison as to be eaten 
for it by the blind old patriarch Isaac, who evidently could 
appreciate venison as much as do modern epicures. 
Among the privy purse expenses of Henry VII (1490), under 
date August 8th, occurs the item, to a woman, three shillings 
and four pence, for clarifying deer suet,” to be used by the King, 
not for culinary, but for medicinal purposes. It was then, and 
much later employed as an ointment. “ Quod olfactu fodum 
est, idem est esu turpe,” says the Comic Latin Grammar, “ that 
