The ghost from a nook o'er the window peep'd in, In the form of a boil'd scrag of mutton.
Any description of trimmings of mutton may be used for broth, but the scrag end of the neck is usually chosen.
The scrag may be boiled or stewed in various ways, with rice, onion-sauce, or parsley and butter.
The more cultivated a famous man is, the more he must enjoy the situation; for along with his dry scrag of fame, the more he must have of the sauce which alone makes it palatable.
He has no sauce for his scrag if he, unmoved, can see the face of some beautiful child in the holiday crowd suddenly illuminated by the pleasure of recognizing him, from his pictures, as the author of her favorite story.
What was easier for him, than to pretend to put the silk scarf in his coat pocket, so as to blind those who saw him do it, and then to lure Miss Wharf out on to those steps and scrag her.
I pumped him, and learned that Hwei intended to scrag the chap who held the fan, so I concluded to lie low.
Make the gravy of a scrag of mutton, a tea-spoonful of lemon pickle, a large spoonful of ketchup, and the same of browning.
Boil it up once, and serve it for boiled rabbits, partridges, scragor knuckle of veal or roast mutton.
Stew a pound and a half of scrag of mutton, with three pints of water till reduced to a quart.
Boil in a quart of water a pound and a half of veal, from the knuckle or scrag end of the neck.
Lay a fowl, or a few bones of thescrag of veal, seasoned, into a dish.
Another way of making a good hodge podge, is to stew a knuckle of veal and a scrag of mutton, with some vegetables, adding a bit of butter rolled in flour.
Scald and clean three or four sets of goose or duck giblets, and stew them slowly with a pound or two of gravy beef, scrag of mutton, or the bone of a knuckle of veal, an ox tail, or some shanks of mutton.
Make a good gravy with part of a knuckle of veal, and the scragend of a neck or a chump end of a loin of mutton.
If to put over cold pies, make it of a small bare knuckle of veal, or of a scrag of mutton.
Add the scrag end of the neck, a little lean bacon or ham, an onion, two carrots, two heads of celery, and a glass of Madeira.
Take a scrag of mutton, a knuckle of veal, after cutting off as much meat as will make collops, two or three shank bones of mutton nicely cleaned, and a quarter of very fine undressed lean gammon of bacon.
Cut off the scrag to boil, and cover it with onion sauce.
Take a scrag or knuckle of veal, slices of undressed gammon of bacon, onions, mace, and simmer them in a small quantity of water, till it is very strong.
Far on the side from us, in the direction of the Squidgy Islands, Scrag trumpeted, followed by frantic splashing as the frightened herd plunged into the reed-beds.
We lost them there, for we could not eat the salt grass, and Scrag had turned north by a mud slough where the waters were bitter, and red moss grew on the roots of the willows.
By this time, too, Scrag knew what we were after; she covered her trail and crossed it as many times as a rabbit.
They bedded at the Grass Flats, but until Scrag herself had a mind to take the trail to the Squidgy Islands, there was nobody but Saber-Tooth could persuade her.
The very next night Scrag began to move her cows out toward the hard land, and when I had marked her trail for five man journeys, I came back to look for Taku-Wakin.
There was no trouble about our going among them so long as Scrag did not wind us.
Scrag was beginning to get the cows together again; but by that time the people had made up their minds to stay where they were.
Six moons we had to stay in that place, for Scrag had hidden the herd so cleverly that it was not until the week-old calves began to squeak for their mothers that we found them.
Roast leg of mutton, boiled neck and scrag of mutton--aha!
The meat on the plate was pork, and the dish of scrag was empty.
Would'nt mind theScrag End Junction passing through Bareacres--hoped I'd come down and shoot there.
The scrag of mutton costs from eight to ten cents; the barley is eight cents a pound--about two cents' worth is sufficient; the onion may be reckoned as one cent.
Buy for four persons one pound or one and a quarter pounds of scrag of mutton; chop it into pieces, and put it into an iron pot with one quart of water, one large onion cut into slices, and a small cupful of pearl barley.
Now, perhaps you know somebody who is a scrag in society.
After all, it is a scrag that has been struck, and everybody laughs and seems to think it a good joke.
And the ass, for its part, responded to the caress by rubbing its head against the boy's breast and by most energetically twitching its scrag of a tail.
By Jove, I would like to have old Scrag in a twenty-four-foot ring, with thin gloves on, for about ten minutes!
Bob's hopes were confirmed, and before dark the Twin Rocks nearScrag Island were sighted, and as they came into view his heart swelled and his blood tingled.
That night they lay behind Scrag Island, and with the first dawn of the morning were under way again.
It does seem strange, when one thinks that we are eating scrag of mutton and beef stew right along, to buy things cheaper still for dinner, doesn't it?
You can have also a dinner of one Frenched tenderloin, and another of scrag of mutton with barley, and a third of half a pound of chopped beef made up into meat cakes with a brown gravy.
Mr. Brandon dined off boiled scrag of mutton; I and the nephew had soup and fish and fowl and plum pudding.
I went indoors directly: before the clock struck eleven the turnips were on, boiling with the scrag of mutton.
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