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Cockentrice is a dish consisting of a suckling pig's upper body sewn onto the bottom half of a capon or turkey.Alternately, the front end (head and torso) of the poultry is sewn to the rump of the piglet.The dish originates from the Middle Ages and at least one source attributes the Tudor dynasty of the Kingdom of England as its originator.
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Nomenclature
Cockentrice, at times also spelled cockentryce, is only one version of the dish's name. The original name was cokagrys or cotagres, a portmanteau of "cock" and grys, a suckling pig. Other spellings from the period include koketris, cocagres and cokyntryche.
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