In this state the bacon remains a fortnight, which is sufficient for flitches cut from hogs of a carcass weight less than 15 stone (14 lbs.
As for the time required in making your flitches sufficiently salt, it depends on circumstances.
This process is repeated for four days; they are then left for three weeks, merely turning the flitches every other day, After that time they are hung up to dry.
In the hurry and excitement of the moment, it was not likely the lad should give a thought to the flitches of fish.
Between the two upright oars several pieces of rope had been stretched transversely, and from these hung suspended the broad thin flitches of the shark's flesh, that at a distance might have been mistaken for some sort of a sail.
Besides what the chest contained there had been some loose flitches of the dried fish lying about upon the raft.
And in the kitchen was the red turf, and the flitches of bacon in the eaves, and the thick servant girls hustling impatiently, and the servant boys in their corduroy trousers bound with rushes at the knee .
You might have married a strong farmer would have a dozen cows, horses would pull a cart or plow, hens by the dozen, and flitches of bacon hanging in the kitchen.
Two precautions are necessary: first, to hang theflitches where no rain comes down upon them: second, not to let them be so near the fire as to melt.
As to the time required for making the flitches sufficiently salt, it depends on circumstances; the thickness of the flitch, the state of the weather, the place wherein the salting is going on.
The flitches should also be transposed, the bottom ones at the top and the top ones at the bottom.
The flitches before smoking are rubbed with bran or very fine sawdust and after smoking are often kept in clear, dry wood ashes or very dry sand.
In this state the bacon remains a fortnight, which is sufficient for flitches cut from nogs of a carcass weight less than 15 stone (14 lbs.
This process is repeated for four days; they are then left for three weeks, merely turning the flitches every other day.
Well now, bailiff, tell me; when you kill seven pigs, how many flitches of bacon do you get?
They went; and Mamsell Westphalen sat alone in her sadness under her flitches of bacon and hams and sausages.
The others counted my mother's hams and flitches of bacon, and the strings of onions throwing flickering shadows in the lamplight.
From the smoke-blackened oak beams hung hams andflitches of bacon more than one would take the trouble to count.
He reached the smoke-house; there was no one in it; there was a gap, though, where two long flitches of bacon had been!
Two flitches tied together with a rope were on the floor, and inside was a man filling a bag with flour from a barrel.
He had been in their houses and noticed as much as two flitches of bacon hanging in the chimney.
It was a touching thing to see the earnestness with which this man spoke of these great evidences of prosperity--horses to work the farm, two flitches of bacon and planting apple trees.
The flitches were cut up and apportioned in like manner.
Let us see half a dozen goodflitches at fourpence, Master Diggs; and be quick.
But occasionally we sell a barrel of pork, or some flitches and hams, to such local buyers as the bushmen employed at the saw-mills.
We have occasionally sent a cask or two of pork, some flitches or hams, to market; but as a rule we consume our pigs on the farm.
Her eye wandered to the racllyi, with its flitches of bacon, to the dreschiaux and the sanded floor, to the great Elizabethan oak chair, and at last back to Guida, as though through her the lost voice might be charmed up again.
Then hang up the flitches to dry, sewing a bag of coarse muslin over each.
Sprinkle the flitches with salt, and drain them for twenty-four hours.
Anon ensues a quiet chat over the evening pipe; the mellowing flitches forming a canopy overhead as we lounge in the cavernous chimney-corner.
Yes, we were some way from the spot truly sacred to the custom at Great Dunmow; but we were uncommonly near to relics of the ancient forest, in which the swine, the Dunmow flitches in process of formation, grew fat upon the abundant acorns.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flitches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
