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{{data|24 November 2019}}
{{Z wizytą w Soplicowie}}
This is another post in a series about food in ''Pan Tadeusz'', the Polish Napoleonic-era national epic by Adam Mickiewicz. While wandering around Europe after his exile from Russian-ruled Poland, Mickiewicz always kept in his travelling library an "old, worn cookbook", which he would read from time to time "with great pleasure", hoping to one day give a "truly Polish-Lithuanian banquet" according to "the ancient recipes".<ref>Excerpts quoted from a letter by Antoni Edward Odyniec, Mickiewicz's travel companion, dated 28 April 1830, quoted in: {{Cyt
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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). For To him, these were this was just the ordinary, daily fare of the "land of [his] childhood". For To us, though, it is what the cookery described in his treasured little book was to Mickiewicz – the forgotten world of Old Polish cuisine. And just like Mickiewicz 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.
== “They Supped Inside the Castle” ==
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== Pełne ''menu'' Full Menu ==I tak oto skompletowaliśmy cały jadłospis uczty w stylu soplicowskimAnd so we've created a complete menu of a Soplica-style dinner:<nomobile>[[File:Pan Tadeusz - menu EN.jpg|center|class=full-page|Karta dań soplicowskiej wieczerzyMenu of a Soplica-style dinner]]</nomobile><mobileonly>[[File:Pan Tadeusz - menu EN mobile.jpg|center|class=full-page|Karta dań soplicowskiej wieczerzyMenu of a Soplica-style dinner]]</mobileonly>
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