"Roast pork" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pt. of gravy in a saucepan with 5 pared, cored and quartered apples. Simmer gently, until tender; beat to a pulp, season with cayenne and serve with cold roast pork. ...
— 365 Luncheon Dishes - A Luncheon Dish for Every Day in the Year • Anonymous
... she had an attentive audience, continued, 'Take roast pork, now. Well, I always say there's a lot in the cookin' o' that, with crisp ...
— Our Elizabeth - A Humour Novel • Florence A. Kilpatrick
... livers are sluggish of action; they help to eliminate from the body noxious matters, which, if retained, would make the brain heavy and dull, or produce jaundice, or skin eruptions, or other allied troubles. Some experience of this sort has led to the custom of our taking Apple sauce with roast pork, roast goose, and similar rich dishes. The malic acid of ripe Apples, raw or cooked, will neutralize the chalky matter engendered in gouty subjects, particularly from [28] an excess of meat eating. ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie
... nostrum for capturing moths is—"Sugar!" A legend tells that many years ago someone discovered (or imagined) that moths came to an empty sugar cask, situate somewhere in a now-unknown land; and acting as the Chinaman is said to have done, in re the roast pork—thought perhaps that the virtue resided in the barrel, and accordingly carted it off into the woods, and was rewarded by rarities previously unknown. A sage subsequently conceived the grand idea that the virtue resided in the sugar and not in the cask, and afterwards came ...
— Practical Taxidermy • Montagu Browne |
