But when there he did consent to receive some consolation in the shape of mutton cutlets and fried potatoes, a savory omelet, and a bottle of claret.
I can't say there was much for lunch--only the mutton bone and some fried potatoes; but my missis got up a bottle of champagne from the wine cellar, and the Major drank three or four glasses.
Lunch, after all, was a poor affair, when it did arrive; but the Major gallantly ate his cold mutton and drank enough champagne to put him into good humour.
Mrs Fortescue thought of her coldmutton and the very sour claret which she usually had on the sideboard but never drank.
On this he enlarged, but not very amply, and after twenty minutes succeeded in sending his new friends home to their baked mutton and pudding well pleased with their new minister.
The female, on the contrary, as she tore the mutton into fragments, kept placing the daintiest morsels before the snout of her black progeny; and with playful strokes of her paw admonished it from time to time to fall to and eat.
A shoulder of mutton is but a morsel to the ravenous appetite of a grizzly bear; and it seemed only to have set theirs upon edge.
With these it had just torn one of the pieces of mutton into smaller fragments, and was eagerly devouring it as the boys arrived on the height above.
If convenient to a market where mutton finds a prompt sale and good prices, then all the conditions are realized which calls for a mutton-producing, as contradistinguished from a wool-yielding, sheep.
The different sorts of mutton in common use differ as well in quality as in quantity.
An opinion likewise generally prevails that mutton does not attain perfection in juiciness and flavor much under five years.
The quality of their mutton equalled, while their aptitude to fatten was decidedly superior to, their longer-legged contemporaries.
To depasture poorer soils, sustain a folding system, and furnish the mutton which supplies the tables of the wealthy, the South-Down meets an equal requirement.
It is fast becoming better appreciated; and, strange as it may seem, good mutton brings a higher price in our best markets than the same quality does in England.
The mutton was well cooked and the vegetables were not bad, Mrs. Candy said; but Matilda thought with dismay of the after dinner dishes.
There's that leg ofmutton to boil, and turnips to be mashed; besides the potatoes.
While Webster was at Croydon, the gallery used to pelt the gentlemen of the orchestra with mutton pies.
A shoulder of mutton was a familiar dish, Beans preparing heaps of potatoes, and with a skilful culinary nicety, for which he was eminent, making the onion sauce himself.
Recipe: Take one ounce of sweet oil, one-half ounce of camphor gum, and one-half ounce of mutton tallow.
The casting material is one part wax, one part spermaceti, two parts mutton tallow.
Mutton and poultry came in their turn, all from our own stock, except when on Thanksgiving-day some of the magnates gave the parson a turkey.
Hard by may be seen a small fire of sticks, which our hungry but injudicious friend has kindled, with a view to cooking him a mutton chop, or some such dainty.
As beef requires a large sound fire, mutton must have a brisk and sharp one: if you wish to have mutton tender it should be hung as long as it will keep, and then good eight-tooth (i.
Wether mutton is preferred to that of the ewe; it may be known by the lump of fat on the inside of the thigh.
Two days before you dress it, take allspice and black pepper, ground and pounded fine, a quarter of an ounce each, rub them together and then rub your mutton well with this mixture twice a day.
Lard and mutton suet carefully prepared, of each one pound; white wax, four ounces; essence of bergamot, one ounce.
Beef and mutton is preferred by some people a little underdone.
Then press into small pots, and pour melted mutton suet over the top of each.
In cold weather a leg of mutton improves by being hung three, four, or five weeks.
Also loue without Mutton is wise meate, folglich = a bunch of Reddis!
Let a drop similar to that which has produced this effect fall into an open wound: the juices of the living body nourish the bacteria as the beef or mutton juice nourished them, and you have putrefaction produced within the system.
Roast beef and mutton required three and three and a quarter hours respectively; veal, salt beef, and broiled chicken remained for four hours; and roast pork enjoyed the bad preeminence of needing five and a quarter hours.
You know I am going to stop there for themutton bones.
I suppose the mutton was brought some miles off, from some place where they knew there was a sheep killed.
In the year 1720, Fenton urged Gay 'to sell as much South Sea stock as would purchase a hundred a year for life, "which will make you sure of a clean shirt and a shoulder of mutton every day.
Take two pounds of mutton trimmings; cut into neat pieces; put into a saucepan with three quarts of water, one large red onion, salt, and a dozen whole peppers.
Take four pounds of lean mutton trimmings; cut them into neat pieces; put them into a saucepan; add three quarts of cold water, one heaping teaspoonful of salt.
There were in the house three mutton chops to meet that expectation.
At the end of the first hour a stupor verging on indifference had set in; it was far on in the second when the dish of fried mutton chops, the hard potatoes, and the tepid whiskies and sodas were flung upon the board.
It was now half-past one, and the three mutton chops and the stewed gooseberries must have long since yielded their uttermost to our guests.
The air within was blue with tobacco smoke, flushed henchwomen staggered to and fro with arms spread wide across trays of whiskies and sodas, opening doors revealed rooms full of men, mutton chops and mastication.
Never mind," said the Squire, putting enough mutton on my plate for two.
I gave a good look round the larder, and took a raised pork-pie that had a piece cut out of it, and a leg of mutton three parts eaten.
Hall would have to get the mutton hashed now, which she would never have done for me and Blair.
She spoke resentfully, as if Miss Sanker had offended her; and no doubt she had, by coming when the house was not in company order, and had nothing better to send in for dinner but cold mutton and half a rhubarb pie.
There was an exterior kitchen, in which certain processes were carried on--such as salting stolen mutton and boiling huge masses of meat, when such work was needed.
It was supposed, also, that though they did not own sheep, they preferred mutton for their daily uses, and that they supplied themselves at a very cheap rate.
Sing Sing, the cook, had been gone for the last half hour, leaving the leg of mutton at the fire.
The canoes were rigged with one or two pole masts with leg-of-mutton sails stepped in thwarts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mutton" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
