"Home-cured" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... morning I used ter go by the friendly, old well and drink a gourdful of the soft, cool water, then feed Tom and Jerry and bring in an armload of wood. As I came in the door the frosty air was sweet with the smell of home-cured bacon which the old woman was fixing fer breakfast and when I sat down there it was jest right, a streak of lean and of fat showing in thin layers. And the big pones of cornbread hot from the Dutch oven; of meal fresh from the old water mill and sweet to the taste; a big ...
— Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight • Mathew Joseph Holt
... them a feast. Home-cured ham and home-laid eggs and corn pone and jam and jelly and cake and molasses and all sorts of good things besides, including cream to drink—real cream, all blobby on the sides of the glass. Bill thought he would never get enough ...
— Battling the Clouds - or, For a Comrade's Honor • Captain Frank Cobb
... I never seed a bit of Master William's home-cured sent out beyond the family to no one till this day. No, ...
— Six Plays • Florence Henrietta Darwin
... dreary soul-dispiriting meal. Farmhouse luxuries, in the way of new-laid eggs and home-cured bacon, abounded; but no one had any inclination for these things. Valentine remembered the homestead among the Yorkshire hills, with all the delight that he had known there; and the "sorrow's crown of sorrow" was very bitter. Mr. Sheldon gave his Sabbath-morning ...
— Charlotte's Inheritance • M. E. Braddon |
