Flitch

I shall wake some morning with my hair all dripping out of the enchanted bucket, or if not we shall both claim the 'Flitch' next September, if you can find one for us in the land of Cockaigne, drying in expectancy of the revolution in Tennyson's 'Commonwealth.'

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) 1907

I shall wake some morning with my hair all dripping out of the enchanted bucket, or if not we shall both claim the 'Flitch' next September, if you can find one for us in the land of Cockaigne, drying in expectancy of the revolution in Tennyson's 'Commonwealth.'

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Kenyon, Frederic G 1898

I make an old English recipe called "Flitch Pie" that has apples and potatoes and sausage (or ham, or bacon) all cooked in a pie crust with a little stock.

Fall Breakfast: sausage and apples regina doman 2007

July 19 is Flitch Day, a surviving relic from Medieval England in which married couples appear before a “mock court.”

And Today Is… - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

July 19 is Flitch Day, a surviving relic from Medieval England in which married couples appear before a “mock court.”

And Today Is… - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

Four market towns fill up the rest of this part of the country — Dunmow, Braintree, Thaxted, and Coggeshall — all noted for the manufacture of bays, as above, and for very little else, except I shall make the ladies laugh at the famous old story of the Flitch of Bacon at Dunmow, which is this:

A Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 2003

Barons in the days of King John; and it may be noted in passing that either to the last-named or his son Walter, as lord of Dunmow in Essex, has been ascribed the institution of the Flitch.

The Customs of Old England

Flitch_, for instance, who is angelic to behold but a spiteful gossip at heart, is, alas! to be found anywhere.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 25th, 1920 Various

William Shield, the composer who wrote many operas for Covent Garden Theatre, beginning aptly enough with one called _The Flitch of Bacon_, was something of an eater.

The Merry-Go-Round Carl Van Vechten 1922

He must have seen Flitch, a capital chap Flitch, making up that parcel in the grocery department and making an appointment for three days 'time.

A Prince of Sinners 1906