"Entremets" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... there was God knows what "a l'Allemande," "A l'Espagnole," "timballe," and "salpicon"— With things I can't withstand or understand, Though swallowed with much zest upon the whole; And "entremets" to piddle with at hand, Gently to lull down the subsiding soul; While great Lucullus' Robe triumphal muffles— (There's fame)—young partridge fillets, decked ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron
... autre chose. "Je t'apprendrai, dit en lui-meme le Phrygien, a specifier ce que tu souhaites, sans t'en remettre a la discretion d'un esclave." Il n'acheta donc que des langues, qu'il fit accommoder a toutes les sauces: l'entree, le second service, l'entremets, tout ne fut que langues. Les convies louerent d'abord le choix d'Esope; a la fin ils s'en degouterent. "Ne t'avais-je pas ordonne, dit Xanthus, d'acheter ce qu'il y avait de meilleur?—He! qu'y a-t-il de meilleur que la langue? repondit Esope. C'est le lien de la vie civile, la ...
— French Conversation and Composition • Harry Vincent Wann
... muskrat had gone. Dishes less false but equally fair had followed. Now, with the air of a conjurer, the waiter just showed them an entremets which he hastened to serve. ...
— The Paliser case • Edgar Saltus
... entremets or second-course dish, spinach, dressed by the above recipe may be pressed into a hot mould; it should then be turned out ...
— The Book of Household Management • Mrs. Isabella Beeton
... brought a menu, which Mother Beckett accepted indifferently up to the entremets "omelette au rhum." This she wished changed for something—anything—made with Jim's favourite jam. "He would want us to eat it at Bar-le-Duc," she said, with her air of taking Jim's nearness and interest in our smallest ...
— Everyman's Land • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson |
