Thomas Hardy's DorsetHopkins, R. Thurston (Robert Thurston)
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Thomas Hardy's Dorset
Hopkins, R. Thurston (Robert Thurston)
Dorset (England); Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
_Ingredients._--3 lb. mutton or pork cutlets, 6 large apples
sliced, 2 large onions, ¼ lb. salt fat bacon cut small, 2 oz.
castor sugar, ½ pint of mutton broth, pepper and salt to taste.
Place these in layers in a deep pie-dish, cover with rich paste and
bake for an hour and a half, or place the whole in a crock and stew
an hour and a half. Serve piping hot. I have seen clotted cream
served and eaten with this "delicacy."
_Squab_, the youngest or weakest pig of the litter. The London
costermonger speaks of the youngest member of his family as the
"squab."
_Withwind_, the wild convolvulus.
_Withy_, the willow-tree. They say in Wiltshire, in reference to
the very rapid growth of the willow, that "a withy tree will buy a
horse before an oak will buy a bridle and saddle." The willow will
often grow twelve feet in a season.
_Wizzened_, shrivelled, withered: as "a wizzened apple," "a
wizzened-faced woman."
_Wosbird._ A term of reproach, the meaning of which appears to be
unknown to those who use it. It is evidently a corruption of
whore's-bird.
End of Project Gutenberg's Thomas Hardy's Dorset, by Robert Thurston Hopkins
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