Possible Clues:

• Cooked food, as served at first in part of church?
• Dish in its own dish
• Stew-dish
• Food served by fool to monarch, merry old one coming round
• Nothing vaguely careless about cook
• Potluck contribution
• Girl bearing in a dish
• So cereals may be used for this oven-cooked covered dish
• Dish cooked in an earthenware pot
• Mule found in Creole cooking pot