souchy

One of the most beautiful motion-masters I ever beheld, sweeping through his green bath in harmonious curves, now turning his black glistening back to me, now exhibiting his fair white chest, in every movement active and graceful, turned out to be our old homely friend the flounder, whom we have all gobbled up out of his bath of water souchy at Greenwich, without having the slightest idea that he was a beauty.

The Virginians 2006

It was a famous house in the seventeenth century, and cooked the Mole trout as well as the Dorking inns cooked their water-souchy of carp and tench.

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

Dorking was famous for a particular way of making water-souchy, a delicious dish of various fishes, of which Mr. J.L. André in the _Surrey Archæological Collections_, has preserved the recipe rescued from an 1833 cookery book 'by a L.dy': --

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

For the souchy, put some water into a stewpan with a bunch of chopped parsley, some roots, and sufficient salt to make it brackish.

The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

For the souchy, put some water into a stewpan with a bunch of chopped parsley, some roots, and sufficient salt to make it brackish.

The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

One of the most beautiful motion-masters I ever beheld, sweeping through his green bath in harmonious curves, now turning his black glistening back to me, now exhibiting his fair white chest, in every movement active and graceful, turned out to be our old homely friend the flounder, whom we have all gobbled up out of his bath of water souchy at Greenwich, without having the slightest idea that he was a beauty.

The Virginians William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

Water souchy (commonly pronounced _sookey_) is a Dutch soup.

Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches Eliza Leslie 1822

Have ready plates of bread and butter, which it is customary to eat with water souchy.

Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches Eliza Leslie 1822

It was cruel to behold such expanse of corn every where, and yet see it all turned to a water-souchy.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757

They tell me my hay will be spoiled for want of cutting; but I had rather it should be destroyed by standing than by being mowed, as the former will cost me nothing but the crop, and 'tis very dear to make nothing but a water-souchy of it.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757