Judging by the ingredients and the cooking directions, both the peafowl pie and the claret recipes read more like overdone status signaling by the "spice barons

Judging by the ingredients and the cooking directions, both the peafowl pie and the claret recipes read more like overdone status signaling by the "spice barons" than anything like tasteful fine dining. This is the culinary equivalent of "how to gold-plate the brand badges on your Mercedes, and then fuse rainbow glitter to them."