 | Patrick Lavelle - 1870 - 620 pages
...thousand may, at a year old, be offered in sale to persons of quality and fortune through the kingdom ; always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully...as to render them plump and fat for a good table. ... I have reckoned, upon a medinm, that a child just born will weigh twelve pounds, and, in a solar... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 pages
...the last month, so as to render it plump and fat for a good table ! " A child," says his Reverence, " will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends...or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish," and so on ; and, the subject being so delightful that he can't leave it, he proceeds to recommend, in place... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 pages
...the last month, so as to render it plump and fat for a good table! "A child," says his Reverence, " will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends;...or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish," and so on ; and, the subjeet be* " London, Aprü lOift, 1713. " Lady Maeham's eldest boy is very ill :... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1873 - 498 pages
...to let them suck plentifully in thé last month, so as to render them plump and fat for good tables. A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when thé family dines alone, thé fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and aeasoned with a... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1876 - 472 pages
...thousand may, at a year old, be offered in sale to the persons of quality and fortune through the kingdom; always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully...quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a link* popper or salt, will be very i;ood boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter." " I have... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1878 - 518 pages
...SBefür* ttiortung biefe« nottytoenbigen SBerfeâ òô1 baä geringe £åã?ÂïÍôå 3ntereffe, the mother to let them suck plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump and fat for good tables. A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pages
...calculations on the subject : at a year old, an infant would weigh about twenty-eight pounds; it would make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dined alone, the fore or hind quarter would make a reasonable dish, and, seasoned with a little pepper... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 pages
...and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled.' He enters gravely into calculation : 'A child will make two dishes at an entertainment...make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little peper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day. ... I buliuve no gentlcman would repine to... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 724 pages
...may, at a year old, be offered in aale to the persons of quality and fortune through the kingdom ; always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully...in the last month, so as to render them plump and fut for a good table. A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends ; and when the family... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 878 pages
...in the last month, so as to render it plump and fat for a good table! "A child," says his Reverence, "will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends...or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish," and so on ; and, the subject being so delightful that lie can't leave it, he proceeds to recommend, in... | |
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A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends ; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish... 
