"Pasties" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Duchess, who in honor of the fine weather had put on a gown of shot-silver and hung her bare shoulders with pearls, so that she looked fit to dance at court with an emperor. She had ordered, too, a rare repast for a lady that heeded so little what she ate—jellies, game-pasties, fruits in syrup, spiced cakes and a flagon of Greek wine; and she nodded and clapped her hands as the women set it before her, saying again and again, ...
— Crucial Instances • Edith Wharton
... bonfires, six bullocks having been slaughtered the day before. Ducks, geese, and chickens innumerable were also cooking; while, for the table in the hold, at which the principal guests sat down, were trout, game, and venison pasties. Here wine was provided, while outside a long row of barrels of beer were broached, for ...
— Both Sides the Border - A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower • G. A. Henty
... banners, which waved in the wind streaming from the crannies in windows which had suffered some dilapidation from the hand of time. Minstrel harps rang throughout the wide apartment, and at a board well covered with smoking viands—haunches of the red deer, bustards, cranes, quarters of mutton, pasties, the grinning heads of wild boars,—and flanked with flagons of wine, and tankards of foaming ale, sat King Stephen, surrounded by the flower of the Norman nobles, whose voices had placed him on the English ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 10, No. 274, Saturday, September 22, 1827 • Various
... souffle, Cold game pie, Croquettes, Croustade, To make a Cutlets, Escaloped tongue, Fillets, Fricandelles of veal, Fritters, Galatine of turkey, of veal, Lambs' tongues in jelly, Macaronied beef, Ox-tails, Pancakes, Pasties of game and poultry, Pate de fois gras, Patties, Potato border, Ragouts of mutton and veal, Rice border, Rissoles, Salmis of game, Stewed lambs' tongues, Stewed steak with oysters, Sweetbreads, Tongue in jelly, Veal, ...
— Miss Parloa's New Cook Book • Maria Parloa
... was ever at hand in days when, if there was grim want in the cottage, there was at least rude plenty in the castle. Within an hour the guests were seated around a board which creaked under the great pasties and joints of meat, varied by those more dainty dishes in which the French excelled, the spiced ortolan and the truffled beccaficoes. The Lady Rochefort, a bright and laughter-loving dame, sat upon the left of ...
— The White Company • Arthur Conan Doyle
... and when the children had played enough at all the games they could think of, the old gray-headed servants brought it in and set it on the table, together with a great many other nice things such as people eat in Norway—pasties made of reindeer meat, and castles of the sweet pastry sparkling with sugar ornaments of ships and flowers and crowns, and cranberry pies, and whipped cream as white as the snow outside; but nothing was admired so much as the great cake, and when the ...
— Junior Classics, V6 • Various
... handfuls thick, and with great ease set it upon four pillars in the midst of a field, to no other end but that the said scholars, when they had nothing else to do, might pass their time in getting up on that stone, and feast it with store of gammons, pasties, and flagons, and carve their names upon it with a knife, in token of which deed till this hour the stone is called the lifted stone. And in remembrance hereof there is none entered into the register ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais |
