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Show Ancestral Breakfasts. According to tho Oxford dictionary 1 103 Is the date of the earliest mention men-tion of breakfast, hut until a century ago It consisted only of a draft of ale or tea or chocolate. Thero were only two meals a day dinner, ranging from I) o'clock In tho morning In the tllteenth century to noon in the seventeenth, sev-enteenth, and supper, which similarly similar-ly ad anted from 5 in the afternoon to 7 o'clock. 1'epys, for Instance, went down to the admiralty at I or Z In the morning on no other breakfast than half a pint of wine or a diani of cordial Hut In the eighteenth century cen-tury dinner was gradually postponed until ! or 0 o'clock In the afternoon. When It passed midday breakfast became be-came a necessity and u meal, lloforo this hunger had demanded the addition addi-tion of bread and some such relish as radishes to the morning draft. |