Ortolans sell, at this time, at thirty sous, equal to one shilling sterling, the dozen.
On that of the old Cardinal, who, when his doctors pronounced his case hopeless, immediately ordered a supper of ortolans with olives.
His chef had eked out a salmi of ortolansby a thrush; and it was exactly that unlucky morsel the Cardinal had helped himself to at breakfast, and immediately sent his plate away in disappointment.
When the ortolans were roasted and ready to be served up, I went into the kitchen, carried them off, and put my mother's knitting apparatus on the spit.
I intended to shoot some more of the ortolans this morning, but there will be plenty of time afterward.
A good supply of wild pigeons and ortolans had been snared, partly cooked, and preserved in lard.
His Eminence said yesterday that the salmi of ortolans was a dish fit for the Pope.
Take the ortolans to that lady, Fritz," said Dalton to the waiter; and Mrs. Ricketts smiled her sweetest gratitude.
Among the Ortolans the sexes are but little distinguishable by their plumage, in which a reddish brown generally predominates.
This mode of fattening them is still employed in Italy and the South of France, as well as among the Greek Islands, where Ortolans are kept in great numbers.
After the ceremony there was an entertainment in Portland Place, and the world ate ortolans and examined the presents.
They are really banquets; I cannot stand those ortolans stuffed with truffles and those truffles stuffed with ortolans.
It would be better for you to pass from dish to mouth a rosary of ortolans with a thrush for Credo.
When they had cleaned their dishes, they asked again for koekebakken, for ortolans and fresh fricassees.
Mr. Beckford describes the Ortolansamong the delicacies which he saw in the kitchen of the monastery of Batalha as "lumps of celestial fatness.
In 1837 there was a live specimen in an aviary of the Zoological Society in Regent's-park; and many Ortolans are sent alive to the London market from Prussia.
Ortolans are solitary birds; they fly in pairs, rarely three together, and never in flocks.
The Ortolans thus treated become like little balls of fat in a few days.
A few poulterers import Ortolans in considerable numbers, and some have acquired the art of fattening these birds.
On the Continent, Ortolans are packed in tin boxes for exportation.
The Ortolans are placed in a dark chamber, perfectly dark, with only one aperture in the wall.
We should do better to settle in some useful trade than to gad about in this way over hill and valley, to serve all these great princes who, with their feet in velvet hose, eat ortolans on gilded tables.
Then making a sign for Ulenspiegel to bring his ear close to his mouth, he said to him in a low voice: "Presently it will rain venison; I shall keep thee four ortolans more than the others.
Ortolans were submitted to the same treatment as fig-peckers in their preparation.
The larger ones are sent to London and potted, where they are by many as much esteemed as the ortolans of the continent.
Ortolans are trussed and dressed in the same manner.
Dish the ortolanson toast, and strain the gravy over them.
Cover the ortolans with slices of bacon, and cook them in a bain-marie moistened with stock and lemon juice.
Ortolans sell at this time at thirty sous, equal to one shilling sterling, the dozen.
Shades of Rousseau and Wordsworth, to mention the nightingale and the ortolans in one breath!
If you have been eating ortolans in Dauphiny, you will not think much of the game which you will find in Paris.
Still, the sea is far more beautiful here than at Boulogne, and the figs and ortolans make it possible to sustain the burden of life.
I had plenty of ortolans and quail pates to eat, which is, perhaps, a matter of more importance.
Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!
It sometimes agglomerates in animals whom art or nature has so predisposed, such as pigs, fowls, ortolans and snipe.
Two dozen ortolans a la provencale, as the dish is described in the Cook's Secretary.
Such little personal indulgences as are common to you and to me are as strange to him as ortolans or diamonds.
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