Brewer's: Baked Meat

means meat-pie “The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage table” (Hamlet);

i.e. the hot meat-pies (venison pasties) served at the funeral and not eaten, were served cold at the marriage banquet.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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