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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ceramics, an earthenware plate of a special pattern, very flat and having a small rim, made by different potters of the eighteenth century.
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Old Baron Toborgil Silverside had scarce touched the slices of meat on his silver trencher-plate, and the hovering pages found few takers for the steaming tureen of carp in nettle broth and the bowls of garnished frumenty and platters of apple and cherry tarts that were the final courses.
Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003
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Take twenty eggs, and strain them whites and all with a little salt; then have a skillet with a pound of clarified butter, warm on the fire, then fry a good thick toast of fine manchet as round as the skillet, and an inch thick, the toast being finely fryed, put the eggs on it into the skillet, to fry on the manchet, but not too hard; being finely fried put it on a trencher-plate with the eggs uppermost, and salt about the dish.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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