"Brasen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a week, worth a groat," is mentioned as the farm servant's portion in "Civil and Uncivil Life," 1579. In "A Piece of Friar Bacon's Brasen-heads Prophesie," a unique poem, 1604, we read that at that time a cheesecake and a pie were held "good country meat." ...
— Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine • William Carew Hazlitt |
