 Johnson's own notions about eating however were nothing less than delicate : a leg of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone, a veal pie with plums and sugar, or the outside cut of a salt buttock of beef, were his favourite dainties : with regard to...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 2251831Full view - About this book
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 348 pages
...bone, a veal-pie with plums and sugar, or an outside cut of a salt buttock of beef, were his favorite dainties. With regard to drink, his liking was for the strongest, as it was not the flavor, but the effect, he sought for, and professed to desire; and when I first knew him, he used... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 pages
...favorite dainties. With regard to drink, his liking was for the strongest, as it was not the flavor, but the effect, he sought for, and professed to desire; and when I first knew him, he used to pour capillaire into his port-wine. For the last twelve years, however,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1880 - 488 pages
...of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone, a veal pie with plums and sugar, or the outside cut of a salt buttock of beef, were his favourite dainties...he sought for, and professed to desire ; and when I first knew him, he used to pour capillaire Into his port wine. For the last twelve years, however,... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland - 1884 - 468 pages
...of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone, a veal-pye with plums and sugar, or the outside cut of a salt buttock of beef, were his favourite dainties...he sought for, and professed to desire ; and when I first knew him, he used to pour capillaire into his Port wine. For the last twelve years however,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 534 pages
...of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone, a veal pie with plums and sugar, or the outside cut of a salt buttock of beef, were his favourite dainties...he sought for, and professed to desire ; and when I first knew him, he used to pour capillaire into his Port wine. For the last twelve years however,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 490 pages
...of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone, a veal pie with plums and sugar, or the outside cut of a salt buttock of beef, were his favourite dainties...he sought for, and professed to desire : and when I first knew him, he used to pour capillaire into his port wine. For the last twelve years, however,... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 512 pages
...of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone, a veal-pye with plums and sugar, or the outside cut of a salt buttock of beef, were his favourite dainties...the effect he sought for, and professed to desire 2 ; and when I first knew him, he used to pour capillaire into his Port wine. For the last twelve years... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 pages
...of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone, a veal-pye with plums and sugar, or the outside cut of a salt buttock of beef, were his favourite dainties...flavour, but the effect he sought for, and professed to desire2; and when I first knew him, he used to pour capillaire into his Port wine. For the last twelve... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 512 pages
...of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone, a veal-pye with plums and sugar, or the outside cut of a salt buttock of beef, were his favourite dainties...flavour, but the effect he sought for, and professed to desire2; and when I first knew him, he used to pour capillaire into his Port wine. For the last twelve... | |
 | Hesther Lynch Piozzi - 2006 - 302 pages
...of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone, a veal pie with plums and sugar, or the outside cut of a salt buttock of beef, were his favourite dainties....effect, he sought for, and professed to desire; and when I first knew him, he used to pour capillaire into his port wine. For the last twelve years, however,... | |
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