mint-sauce

A stick of horseradish, a bottle of mint-sauce well corked, a bottle of salad dressing, a bottle of vinegar, made mustard, pepper, salt, good oil, and pounded sugar.

To Say Nothing of the Three Crates of Picnic Provisions « Dyepot, Teapot 2008

On the other hand the unmistakable bubbling note of the mint-sauce will not be heard for another month or so.

Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920. Various

Sierras, in California, I found a wooded bluff -- you looked a thousand feet straight down to a clear lake, green as mint-sauce pretty nearly, not a wrinkle on it.

The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918

Far away from the greystone wings, the dark cedars, the faultless gravel drives, and the mint-sauce lawns of Holt Hangars runs a river called the Hudson, whose unkempt banks are covered with the palaces of those wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice.

The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900

I remember your pushing it to extreme lengths in a poem entreating people not to mention mint-sauce when conversing with a lamb.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 22, 1920 Various 1898

In my musings it seems to me to be almost idyllic to have known a spring chicken in his infancy; to have watched a hind-quarter of lamb gambolling about its native heath before its muscles became adamant, and before chopped-up celery tops steeped in vinegar were poured upon it in the hope of hypnotizing boarders into the belief that spring lamb and mint-sauce lay before them.

Coffee and Repartee John Kendrick Bangs 1892

Mr. Trinder never could remember afterwards whether it was lamb or mutton he had eaten; he had a vague idea that Dulce had handed him the mint-sauce, and that he had declined it and helped himself to salad.

Not Like Other Girls Rosa Nouchette Carey 1874

A stick of horseradish, a bottle of mint-sauce well corked, a bottle of salad dressing, a bottle of vinegar, made mustard, pepper, salt, good oil, and pounded sugar.

The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

A stick of horseradish, a bottle of mint-sauce well corked, a bottle of salad dressing, a bottle of vinegar, made mustard, pepper, salt, good oil, and pounded sugar.

The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

In the afternoon we proceeded fifteen miles farther, to the half-way house, where on my first arrival in the colony I had been initiated into the art of cooking a saddle of kangaroo, and serving it up with mint-sauce.

The Bushman — Life in a New Country Edward Wilson Landor 1844