Russian Salad, Easter Eggs, Scramble, Copec (1669)

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A RELATION OF THREE EMBASSIES FROM HIS SACRED MAJESTIE CHARLES II TO THE
GRAND DUKE OF MUSCOIVE, THE KING OF SWEDEN, AND THE KING OF DENMARK
Performed by the Right Noble Earl of Carlisle in the years 1663 &  1664
Written by an Attendant on the Embassies
(NYPL has "Guy Miege"--ed.)
London: John Starkey
1669

   OED doesn't cite from this book at all?
   It antedates "copeck."  "Russian salad" and "Easter egg" aren't really
here, but whatever.  Again, no one drinks "vodka"--just "aqua vitae," "quaz,"
"mead," and "beer."


Pg. 31:  In the _Volga_, they have a kind of Sturgeon, of whose Eggs they
make an excellent Ragout,  which they call _Ikari_, and the Italians
_Cavayar_, which affords a considerable trade in those Parts, and the Czar
keeps it to himself; They put their Eggs into Paste, and (having prepared
them with Salt ten or twelve days) they eat them like a Sallad with Vinegar,
oyl of Olives, Pepper, and Onions.  They have all kinds of Pulse, and
Pot-heards, yet it is not long since Sallades and Asparagus were in fashion
in _Mosco_...

Pg. 32:  Of this Honey it is they make their Mead, which they call _Mioude_,
a very common drink amongst them.

Pg. 33:  Besides this, Ordinary People drink _Quaz_, which is a kind of small
Beer, and not unpleasant.  The better Sort make themselves a kind of strong
Beer, which they keep in their Snow-houses all the Summer.

Pg. 41:  Under them they have strait Breeches, and Wast-coats (which they
call _Caftan_) that come down to their knees, whose Collars are made after
the fashion of the _Jesuits_...

Pg. 50:  Their ordinary drink is _Mead_ and _Quaz_, as I have intimated
before.

Pg. 68:  ...a _Copeca_... (...) ...a _Rouble_...
(OED has 1698 for "copeck"--ed.)

Pg. 82:  As for Drink, we were plentifully provided with Beer, Mead,
_Aqua-vitae_, divers sorts of Wines, and _Spanish_ amongst the rest.

Pg. 88:  ...Wine, Mead, and Quaz...

Pg. 110:  ...we almost alwaies eat in a Scramble, mutton, beef, or hens,
which were rosted in their furnaces, was commonly our fare.
(OED's first "scramble" is 1674, and the cookery dish is 1893--ed.)

Pg. 142:  There was a challenge also betwixt twelve of our company to play at
Foot-ball...

Pg. 299:  Eight days after this Procession we had the Feast of Easter, in
which the _Muscovites_ have a Custome of presenting one another with coloured
Eggs. (...) They do ordinarily kiss one another in their Salutations, and he
which salutes the other, presents him with a coloured Egg.  This Ceremony
continues fifteen days, insomuch as at that time there are many shops, in
which they sell these Eggs ready dyed into a red or a Crimson colour.

Pg. 399:  The lanugage they speak in _Riga_ is _High Dutch_...

(The end of the last NEW VOYAGE TO ITALY post, page 533, should read "three
_Julio's"--ed.)