 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 str.
...he hashes it ; and he serves it up cold ; and he garnishes it ; and relishes it always. He deseribes the little animal as " dropped from its dam," advising...will make a reasonable dish," and so on ; and, the subjeet be* " London, Aprü lOift, 1713. " Lady Maeham's eldest boy is very ill : I doubt he will not... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1878 - 518 str.
...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,...fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt, will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 str.
...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... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 724 str.
...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...or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and, seasoned with a little pepper and salt, will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter."... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 str.
...wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled.' He enters gravely into calculation : 'A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends,...fore or hind quarter will 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 878 str.
...a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and 1 make no doubt it will equally serve in a ragout."...so on ; and, the subject being so delightful that lie can't leave it, he proceeds to recommend, in place of venison for squires' tables, "the bodies... | |
 | William Minto - 1881 - 596 str.
...them suck plentifully in the Inst month, so as to render them plump and fat for a good table. A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends...or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and, seasoned with a little pepper or salt, will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1882 - 874 str.
...fondles and caresses it. Mr. Dean has no such softness, and enters the nurser}- with the tread and gayety of an ogre.* "I have been assured," says he in the...for squires' tables, " the bodies of young lads and maidans not exceeding fourteen or under twelve." Amiable humorist ! laughing castigator of morals !... | |
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That the remaining hundred 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 in the last month, so as to render them plump, and fat for a... 
