Ok, what is Henry the 8th famous for apart from the marrying wives then executing them thing and wrongly being credited with writing 'Greensleeves'? Yes, he was a fat bastard, and I can say that as I too am the porky side of having unwed parents myself. Henry was partial to a banquet or three, and I found this jolly description of the first course involved on www.the-tudors.org.uk) "The first course consisted of a civet of hare, a quarter of stag which had been a night in salt, a stuffed chicken, and a loin of veal. The two last dishes were covered with a German sauce, with gilt sugar-plums, and pomegranate seeds.... At each end was an enormous pie, surmounted with smaller pies, which formed a crown. Each contained a whole roe-deer, a gosling, three capons, six chickens, ten pigeons, one young rabbit. To serve as seasoning or stuffing, a minced loin of veal, two pounds of fat, and twenty-six hard-boiled eggs, covered with saffron and flavoured with cloves... (As for the second course) There was a roe-deer, a pig, a sturgeon cooked in parsley and vinegar, and covered with powdered ginger; a kid, two goslings, twelve chickens, as many pigeons, six young rabbits, two herons, a leveret, a fat capon stuffed, four chickens covered with yolks of eggs and sprinkled with powder de Duc (spice), a wild boar." Believe me, that was not the end of it, another four courses were to follow, and I am not sure that I could put together the same board of fayre but this mix represents my attempt to put together a menu just as fullblown, complex and over elaborate as a typical Tudor menu! Fullblown? Complex? Over elaborate? It has to be a Prog Rock menu!