From Natural Magick by John Baptist Porta (1537-1615), via Gode Cookery, a very phantastical recipe for peacock, beginning "You should first kill the peacock ..."
[Gode Cookery cites Scully, Terence. Cuoco Napoletano. The Neapolitan Recipe Collection : (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS Buhler, 19) : A Critical Edition and English Translation. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2000.]
The peacock picture is from the Aberdeen Bestiary
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