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  • When she contributed a celebratory jelly trifle recipe to the 50th anniversary issue of Alan Davidson's periodical, Petis Propos Culinaire, Saberi found herself lampooned by readers who complained the trifle was "more suited to a school treat than a gastronome's table".

    How to make perfect trifle 2011

  • Haalo used the peas to make Petis Pois à La Française, “a bistro favorite … made with onions, bacon, lettuce, and fresh peas [c] ooked in a good amount of butter.”

    Weekend Herb Blogging #155 Round-Up Laurie Constantino 2008

  • Haalo used the peas to make Petis Pois à La Française, “a bistro favorite … made with onions, bacon, lettuce, and fresh peas [c] ooked in a good amount of butter.”

    Archive 2008-10-01 Laurie Constantino 2008

  • French by Petis de la Croix, with a preface by Cazotte, and was englished by Ambrose Phillips.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The bishop, who does not appear to have joined a relish for the flights of imagination to his other estimable qualities, expressed his dislike of these tales pretty strongly and stated it to be his opinion, formed on the frequent descriptions of female dress, that they were the work of some Frenchman (Petis de la Croix, a mistake afterwards corrected by Warburton).

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Ruz = Thousand and One Days, and in 1675 he allowed his friend Petis de la Croix, who happened to be at Isfahan, to copy it.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Petis de la Croix (Les Mille et un Jours vol.iii. 258) speaks of the “Zoubanya,” black angels who torture the damned under their chief Dabilah.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And so his imitator, Petis de la Croix,174 in his Mille et un Jours, reduces the thousand to two hundred and thirty-two.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Persian collection entitled ‘Hazár Yek Rúz or the Thousand and One Days,’ of which Petis de la Croix published a French rendering [in 1710], which was done into English [by Dr. King, and published in 2 vols. (with the Turkish Tales = Forty Vezirs) as early as 1714; and subsequently] by Ambrose Phillips (in 1738) (Clouston, in litt).

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Vazirs had previously been published by Petis de la Croix under the title of Turkish Tales.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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