Cock-a-grice [A blend, from "cock" + "grice", a pig.
In early English and Scots cookery, a cock-a-grice is a dish usually consisting of an old cock and an old grice boiled together.
1400 Form of Cury
Cock-a-grice Take a whole roasted cock, etc.
1402 Anc. Cookery in Househ. Ord.
Cock-a-grice with pears in syrup.
1410 Anc. Cookery in Househ. Ord.
Cock-a-grice. Take an old cock and pull him and also take a grice, and flee
him and sow him fast together.
1430 Cookery Bks.
Cockagrice: take a cock & draw him clean. Take a grice & draw him in the
same manner and roast them.
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