Obs. Forms: 4–5 fars, 7–8 farce. [a. OF. farce, f. farcir, farsir:—L. farcīre to stuff.] Force-meat, stuffing.
c. 1390[?]. Form of Cury (1780), 75. Make a Coffyn an ynche depe & do þe fars þerin.
c. 1450. Two Cookery-bks., 45. Take of the fars, and lay on þe cake.
1727. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Calves Ears, They must be … unsew’d when ready, but so as the Farce may not fall out.
1796. Mrs. Glasse, Cookery, vi. 116. To roast Pigeons with a Farce. Make a farce with the livers minced small, as much sweet suet or marrow, grated bread, and hard eggs, an equal quantity of each.
1823. Crabb, Technol. Dict., Farces, meat chopped small, and well spiced.
