Edited sentence: After about 1880, the term stuffing was replaced by dressing in Victorian English.Both terms are used today, occasionally to differentiate between varieties.In the Middle Ages, stuffing was known as farce (from the French); the root of the word 'forcemeat'.It is not known when stuffings were first used.Most of the stuffings described consist of vegetables, herbs and spices, nuts, and spelt (an old cereal), and frequently contain chopped liver, brains, and other organ meat.The earliest documentary evidence is the Roman cookbook Apicius, which contains recipes for stuffed chicken, hare, pig, and dormouse.The term 'stuffing' is first attested in 1538