jan 1, 1554 - chafing dish

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A dish which could be filled with burning charcoal, on which plates of food could be cooked gently or kept hot. 1535 <i>Item iij Shalfing dishes</i>, <i>iijs</i>, Stillingfleet (YRS45/129); 1554 <i>a cobord, a laver, a chawfyndyshe</i>, South Cave (Kaner47); 1606 <i>a chafindishe of brasse</i>, Timble (SS104/249); 1642 <i>Sette your chafinge dish of coals into one of your bowles</i>, Elmswell (DW112); 1700 <i>saw John Walker blowing a fire made of Coal Charcoal, on a chafen dish</i>, Wakefield (QS4/19).

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