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We took possession at once, and then descended the hill to a dinner -- I had ventured to hint at our famished condition -- of capercailie, cranberries, soft bread, whipped cream, and a glass of genuine port.
Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Bayard Taylor 1851
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We were too hungry to need much persuasion, and indeed the table set with _tjäde_, or capercailie (one of the finest game birds in the world), potatoes, cranberries, and whipped cream, accompanied with excellent Umeå ale, and concluded with coffee, surpassed anything we had sat down to for many a day.
Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Bayard Taylor 1851
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