"What the Tribune's perusal makes known, without fail The skilled cooks at once carry all out to the letter. The work hums, on the tables some fifty knives clatter, Small scullions, black as Satan, run, bustle and scurry, These with wood, those with pailfuls of milk or wine hurry, Into pots pour, and cauldrons; steam gushes; two fellows Take a seat by the range and work hard at the bellows; The Tribune, that the firewood more easily should Catch alight, bids that butter be poured on the wood (In a well-to-do house such waste can be forgiven). The scullions pitch dry bundles of twigs in the oven, Yet others, huge roasts onto enormous spits drag Of veal, venison, haunches of wild boar and stag; They pluck mountains of game birds, great down clouds arouse, All denuded lie heath cocks, and chickens, and grouse. (...) For the rest, of all viands there was a great stock, Put together from larder, and from butcher's block, From the forests, from neighbours, from far and from near: You would say, only bird's milk could be lacking here. Two things a generous lord to a feast can impart, Unite in Soplicowo: there's plenty, and art."
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