"Chewet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... neshness, and smircheth his hand who toucheth it... a man may wipe off the uncleanness, but always it is lead, although it seemeth silver." Weather vanes, made often of lead, were sometimes quite elaborate. One of the most important pieces of lead work in art is the figure of an angel on the chewet of Ste. Chapelle in Paris. Originally this figure was intended to be so controlled by clockwork that it would turn around once in the course of the twenty-four hours, so that his attitude of benediction should be directed to all four ...
— Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages • Julia De Wolf Addison
... Chewets for fish days were similar pies of chopped turbot, haddock, and cod, ground dates, raisins, prunes, powder and salt, fried in oil, and boiled in sugar and wine. L. Cure, p.41. Markham's Recipe for 'A Chewet Pye' is at p.80-1 of his English Houswife. Chewit, or small Pie; minced or otherwise. R. Holme. See also two recipes in ...
— Early English Meals and Manners • Various |
