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Andovilles, They are the great guts of porke, or beef, filled up with thinne slices of tender meat, or small guts of porke, well seasoned with peper, salt, fine hearbs, &c. some doe call the Chitterlings
François Pierre de La Varenne, The French Cook (1653)
James Howell's Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660) frontispiece

James Howell's Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660) frontispiece,
Courtesy of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
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