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What's more, not only did Old Polish bigos contain not even a soupçon of cabbage, but even meat was only optional. As long as ''bigos'' meant "something chopped up", you could make it out of anything that could be chopped. So apart from veal, capon (castrated cock), wether mutton (castrated ram), rabbit, hazel grouse or beef marrow bigos, we also know recipes for carp, pike, crayfish, oyster or even crêpe bigos (or ''bigosek'', a diminutive form often used back then).