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Mint sauce   Listen
noun
Mint sauce  n.  
1.
A sauce of vinegar and sugar flavored with spearmint leaves.
2.
Money. (Slang, Eng.)





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"Mint sauce" Quotes from Famous Books



... Prepare some mint sauce by stripping from the stalks the leaves of young green mint, mincing them very fine, and mixing them with vinegar and sugar. There must be just sufficient vinegar to moisten the mint, but not enough to make the ...
— Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches • Eliza Leslie
... improvised table, heaped high with pears, apples, and grapes all a little the worse for their long journey from New York State to Wyoming, but still things of beauty and a joy as long as they lasted to Wyoming eyes and appetites. We had a perfectly roasted leg of lamb; we had mint sauce, a pyramid of flaky mashed potatoes, a big dish of new peas, a plate of sponge-cake I will be long in forgetting; and the blue jar was full of grape marmalade. Our iced tea was exactly right; the pieces of ice clinked pleasantly ...
— Letters of a Woman Homesteader • Elinore Pruitt Stewart
... particular,' said Mr Mantalini. 'It is to melt some scraps of dirty paper into bright, shining, chinking, tinkling, demd mint sauce.' ...
— The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens
... game of sparrows, nor faces at the ram, And ne'er allude to mint sauce when calling on a lamb. Don't beard the thoughtful oyster, don't dare the cod to crimp, Don't cheat the pike, or ever try to pot the playful shrimp. Tread lightly on the turning worm, don't bruise the ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various


Words linked to "Mint sauce" :   condiment


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