"Cranberry sauce" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... up with the pig, apple-sauce, cranberry sauce, or bread-sauce in a small tureen; or ...
— Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches • Eliza Leslie
... the bill of fare at restaurant and hotel was invariably only a weak reflex of the metropolitan hostelries; why the entrees were always the same, only more or less badly cooked; why the traveling American always was supposed to demand turkey and cold cranberry sauce; why the pretty waiter-girl apparently shuffled your plates behind your back, and then dealt them over your shoulder in a semicircle, as if they were a hand at cards, and not always a good one? Why, having done this, she instantly retired to the nearest wall, and gazed at you ...
— Drift from Two Shores • Bret Harte
... approached, and everybody was praying for a flurry of snow, just enough to give a zest to turkey and cranberry sauce. On the twentieth it suddenly occurred to Mother Carey that this typical New England feast day would be just the proper time for the housewarming, so the Lord children, the Pophams, and the Harmons were all bidden to come at seven o'clock in the evening. Great preparations ensued. Rows of Jack ...
— Mother Carey's Chickens • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... scornfully into the hard dirt floor with his heel. "You ought to see ours. Twenty pounds, and my, such a big fellow! Cranberry sauce an' roast potatoes, an' squash to ...
— A Son of the City - A Story of Boy Life • Herman Gastrell Seely
... we can trot out a regular banquet," Field assured them, optimistically. "S'posen we don't have turkey and cranberry sauce and ...
— Bruvver Jim's Baby • Philip Verrill Mighels
... its chestnut stuffing and accompanying cranberry sauce, is not a "company" dish, though excellent for an informal dinner. Saddle of mutton is a typical company dish—all mutton has currant jelly. Lamb ...
— Etiquette • Emily Post
... are lovely, and Esther looks very fat and happy and well-to-do, and says she doesn't mind it a bit, and sees more clearly every day that the thing she was born for was to take the charge of a large family. Her Joseph P. is very well off, too. I should judge that they "could have cranberry sauce every day and never feel the difference," which an old cousin of my mother's, whom I dimly remember as a part of my childhood, used to regard as representing ...
— In the High Valley - Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series • Susan Coolidge
... worth a hill of beans, High School Commencement, Fourth of July, Sunday-school excursion, Election' bonfire, Thanksgiving Day (a nice day and one whereon you can eat roast turkey till you can't choke down another bite, and pumpkin-pie, and cranberry sauce. Tell you!)—but about the best in the whole lot, and something the city folks don't have, is Firemen's Tournament. That comes once a year, generally about the time for ...
— Back Home • Eugene Wood |
