carving terms

The one that strikes me as the most peciuliar is tire an egg or tire that egg (tiring an egg?)? Why is an egg included in carving terms, anyway?...praps after the shell is removed and it's sliced hard-boiled? And maybe there is another lost Middle English connotation for the verb tire?...OED, tsuwm?

the potato

Thanks for that enlightening culinary history of the potato, of troy.

And, Bingley...do you have these literary passages at your fingertips?...amazing.