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}}</ref> I will write about the title of this book in a different post. For now, it suffices to say that the poet never had the occasion to fulfil his dream of hosting a real-life Old Polish-Lithuanian feast and had to satisfy his culinary fantasies by conjuring up a perfect traditional banquet on the pages of ''Pan Tadeusz''instead.

He placed his description of an old-fashioned "Polish dinner" in the books (chapters) XI and XII of the poem. In the earlier books, on the other hand, we can find depictions of the kind of meals the author could remember from his own youth in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (a constituent nation of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which covered not only the territory of the modern-day Republic of Lithuania, but also the much larger Belarus). Yet something that was For him, these were just the ordinary, daily fare of the "land of [his] childhood" to Mickiewicz. For us, though, it is a forgotten Old Polish cuisine to us -- what the same thing that whatever he read about cookery described in his treasured cookbook little book was to himMickiewicz – the forgotten world Old Polish cuisine. And just like Mickiewicz fantasized would fantasize about recreating an Old Polish banquet, so would I like to share with you my own vision of a ''Pan Tadeusz''-style supper. Someone someday may actually try to prepare a meal based on the menu I propose here; but for now let's stick mostly to our imagination.

Chronologię posiłków opisanych w&nbsp;I already wrote about the chronology of the meals described in ''Panu TadeuszuPan Tadeusz'' in [[Z wizytą w&nbsp;SoplicowieEpic Cooking: Śniadanie u&nbsp;Sędziego#O czym to było?Breakfast at Judge Soplica's|omówiliśmy już sobie przy okazji wpisu o&nbsp;soplicowskich śniadaniachmy post about the epic's breakfasts]]. As you may or may not remember, więc teraz przypomnę tylko, że w&nbsp;pierwszych pięciu księgach poematu znajdziemy opis trzech posiłków popołudniowo-wieczornychthere are three afternoon or evening meals described in the first five book of the poem. Są to: piątkowa wieczerza w&nbsp;dawnym zamku HoreszkówThese include a Friday supper in the ruined castle of the Horeszko family, sobotni obiad w&nbsp;dworku Sędziego Soplicy oraz niedzielna wieczerza, która znowu odbyła się w&nbsp;zamkua Saturday dinner at Judge Soplica's manor house and a Sunday supper held in the castle again. Nasze We'll try and use the poet's descriptions of all three meals topiece together our menu'' spróbujemy złożyć z&nbsp;okruchów informacji, które poeta przekazał nam w&nbsp;opisach wszystkich trzech posiłków.