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"cockentrice" and rice pudding made with bone marrow, netted 2. 3m viewers and a 9. 8\% share of the 9pm to 10pm audience.
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chained_bear commented on the word cockentrice
"The cockentrice was a fantasy animal from the forepart of a capon and the rear of a piglet stitched together, stuffed and roasted."
--Kate Colquhoun, Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking (NY: Bloomsbury, 2007), 57
January 8, 2017