pottages

Mazais boiled the barley and beans into pottages with onions, uncounted onions; a woman got three ladles of pottage for every five that went to a man.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

Mazais boiled the barley and beans into pottages with onions, uncounted onions; a woman got three ladles of pottage for every five that went to a man.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

Mazais boiled the barley and beans into pottages with onions, uncounted onions; a woman got three ladles of pottage for every five that went to a man.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

The directions were to enable a man “to make common pottages and common meats for the household, as they should be made, craftily and wholesomely;” so that this body of cookery was not prepared exclusively for the use of the royal kitchen, but for those who had not the taste or wish for what are termed, in contra-distinction, in the next sentence, “curious pottages, and meats, and subtleties.”

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

And they have not in many places, neither pease ne beans ne none other pottages but the broth of the flesh.

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

Unfolding her linen napkin upon her lap, she waited until the pottages were served.

Chasing a Rogue Victoria Malvey 2002

Odds fish, da jurandi, why do not we rather remove our humanities into some good warm kitchen of God, that noble laboratory, and there admire the turning of the spits, the harmonious rattling of the jacks and fenders, criticise on the position of the lard, the temperature of the pottages, the preparation for the dessert, and the order of the wine service?

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Odds fish, da jurandi, why do not we rather remove our humanities into some good warm kitchen of God, that noble laboratory, and there admire the turning of the spits, the harmonious rattling of the jacks and fenders, criticise on the position of the lard, the temperature of the pottages, the preparation for the dessert, and the order of the wine service?

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

They fed me on broths and pottages, meat being forbidden them; they will not kill, saying one should be as just to sensible beasts as to men.

The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966

There was one shanty, not otherwise distinguished from the rest, in which French soups were declared to be for sale; but these alien pottages seemed to be no more favored than the most poisonous of our national viands.

Suburban Sketches William Dean Howells 1878