 | 1831 - 470 páginas
...Lernean snakes in the reeds of Acheron, Stix, or Phlegeton,) untill at last, by the skill of the cooke, it is transformed into the form of a Flip-Jack, called...Pancake, which ominous incantation the ignorant people do devoure very greedily.' "In the North of England, Shrove Tuesday is called Fasten' 1 Ee'n or FasUntfs... | |
 | 1831 - 478 páginas
...Lernean snakes in the reeds of Acheron, Stix, or Phlegeton), untill at .last, by the skill of the cooke, it is transformed into the form of a Flip-Jack, called...Pancake, which ominous incantation the ignorant people do devoure very greedily." In the North of England, Shrove Tuesday is called Fasten's Ee'n or Fasting's... | |
 | 1843 - 434 páginas
...it makes a confused dismal hissing (like the Lernian snakes in the reeds of Acheron), until at last, by the skill of the cook, it is transformed into the form of a lip-jack, called a pancake, vhieh ominous incantation he ignorant people do detour very greedily."... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 páginas
...little, into a frying-pan of boiling suet, where it makes a confused dismal hissing .... until at last, by the skill of the cook, it is transformed into the...incantation the ignorant people do devour very greedily." A correspondent in Hone's " Every Day Book," relates that the old curfew bell at Hoddcsdon, Hertfordshire,... | |
 | PERCY B. ST. JOHN - 1848 - 460 páginas
...pancakes!" we thunder forth in return. Batter is better than batteries, and the true protecting ¡cgis of Britannia is— the frying-pan. But raised upon...not, therefore, proud to number himself among them, ant » cipating the truth of a line to be thereafter written, which, with such blissful ignorance,... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1848 - 456 páginas
...and moreo'er. puddings andJlapjacks. — Pericles, II. 7, Supplement to Shakspeare. Until at last, by the skill of the cook, it is transformed into the form of a flap-jack, which, in our translation, is called a pancake. — Taylor's Jack-alent,\. p. 115. TO FLARE... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1857 - 1022 páginas
...boiling suet where it makes a confined dismal hissing like the heathcan snakes, &c., until at last, by the skill of the cook, it is transformed into the form of a flip-jack called a pancake, which, with ominous incantations, the ignorant people do devour greedily." 66. CoBALnra. — FOB RESTORING... | |
 | 1856 - 678 páginas
...hissing, until at last, by the skill of the cooke, it is transformed into the shape of a flap-jack, called a pancake ; which ominous incantation the ignorant people do devour very greedily." At York, there used to be, perhaps it may be so still, a Pancake bell always rung on Shrove-Tuesday,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1857 - 266 páginas
...dismal hissing, like the Lethean snakes in the reeds of Acheron, Styx, or I'hlegethon, until at last, by the skill of the cook, it is transformed into the form of a flip-jack, called a pancake, which, with ominous incantations, the ignorant people do devour very greedily." Spring. It was originally... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1862 - 880 páginas
...it makes a confused dismal hissing (like the Lernian snakes in the reeds of Acheron), until at last, by the skill of the cook, it is transformed into the...form of a flip-jack, called a pancake, which ominous iacaittatitn the ignorant people do devour very greedily.' It was customary to present the first pancake... | |
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... called wheaten flour, which the cooks do mingle with water, eggs, spice, and other tragical, magical enchantments, and then they put it by little and little into a frying-pan of boiling suet, where it makes a confused dismal hissing (like the... 
