Friday 12 October 1660

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• N Paul Miller on Mon 13 Oct 2003, 02:08am

  “to a venison pasty of his at the Dolphin”

  To Season a Venison Pasty from a seventeenth century recipe.

  Take out ye bones & turn ye fat syde down upon a board. Yn take ye pill of 2
  leamons & break them in pieces as long as yr finger & thrust them into every
  hole of yr venison. then take 2 ounces of beaten pepper & thrice as much salt,
  mingle it, then wring out ye juice of leamon into ye pepper & salt & season it,
  first takeing out ye leamon pills haveing layn soe a night. then paste it with
  gross pepper layd on ye top & good store of butter or mutton suet.

• N Mary on Mon 13 Oct 2003, 06:53am

  a venison pasty of his

  This entry, combined with entries regarding the earlier pasty eaten in the first week of September at the Bull’s Head tavern, imply that a venison pasty was very much a ‘special’ dish, either made to order or reserved for a particular client.

• N Glyn on Mon 13 Oct 2003, 01:36pm

  Phil has started a special section for “Venison Pasty” at:
  http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/384.php

  I imagine most of the deer meat on sale in London would have been stolen, unless you had your own private deerpark as did Lord Sandwich.

• N vincent on Mon 13 Oct 2003, 06:10pm

  Game is never stolen, it just poached, very specialised?

• N Peter on Mon 13 Oct 2003, 10:07pm

  I suppose game is always poached because for quite some time it was a crime that could only be committed against French-speaking Norman landowners. The criminal would presumably try to get away with the game he had bagged in his pouch, pocket, or “poche”.

• N Glyn on Tue 14 Oct 2003, 01:11pm

  I myself am pretty good at poaching eggs.

• N Peter on Tue 14 Oct 2003, 07:46pm

  Glyn, pocher des oeufs

• N Harry on Tue 14 Oct 2003, 09:29pm

  she showing me most extraordinary love and kindness, and do give me good assurance of my uncle

• N vincent on Tue 14 Oct 2003, 10:54pm

  See this site for inside poop
  but Robert of Brampton. Died Sine Prole
  136 M i Capt. Robert Pepys
  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pepys/pepys/pafc06.htm#68C1
  

• N Paul Brewster on Tue 14 Oct 2003, 11:17pm

  His uncle Robert Pepys
  According to the Genealogical web site that vincent quoted above, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pepys/pepys/pafg06.htm#113
  , RP signed a will on 12/15 Aug 1657. (“Real estate left to my nephew Samuel Pepys son of my brother John. My brother John and his son Samuel executors.”). So by the time of this entry, his inheritance was already in the bag although SP may not have known it.

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• N vincent on Wed 15 Oct 2003, 05:21am

  In the Will THAT YOU ARE maybe, could be ?? ‘tis very Important test to please one’s Uncle; Many fail that test.????.