Crossword-Solution: JAMBONS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 18

Upon a mossy bank beneath a tree, a cushion was placed for the King, and before it on the sward was laid a cloth spread with many dainties, including "Neats' tongues powder'd well, and jambons of the hog, With sausages and savoury knacks to set men's minds agog"-- cold capons, and pigeon pies.

Simon ate and admired so much; “ces jambons ont un parfum si admirable, un goût si relevé et si vivifiant, qu’on en est surpris: il est impossible de rien manger si exquis.” His Grace of Arcos used to shut up the pigs in places abounding in vipers, on which they fattened.

The "_jambons de Bayonne_" are mostly cured at Orthez, and it is indeed the leading industry of the city.

Those who think that York ham, which even the French know as _Jambon d'Yorck_, is a superlative sort of pig-product, should become acquainted with the _jambons de Bayonne_, from Basque pigs, cured with the natural salts of the commune of Salies.

Dinde farçi à la Périgord, pâté de gibier à l’Anglaise, langues glacées, jambons glacés, poulets rôtis aux cresson, ptarmigans rôtis, pâté de foies gras aux truffes, boudins de homard à la Belle Vue, aspic de crevettes à la Russe, mayonnaise de saumon.