Baked Meatmeans meat-pie “The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage table” (Hamlet); i.e. the hot meat-pies (venison pasties) served at the funeral and not eaten, were served cold at the marriage banquet. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Baked Meat from Infoplease:
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