Otherways, stew them in butter and cream, and serve them in scollop shells. From Wordnik.com. [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference
Work 4 rounds more, the same for each scollop, or 32 for the collar, then work 18 of the following pattern for the leaf. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, etc.] Reference
I demanded where their rappee was? the good woman pointed to the place; and I took up a scollop-shell of it, refusing to let her weight it, and filled my box. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Take claret-wine vinegar, nutmeg, salt, and butter, stew them down some what dry, and dish them in a scollop-shell, run them over with butter and slic't lemon. From Wordnik.com. [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference
Otherways, cut it into dice-work, and warm it with white-wine and butter, put it in a pipkin with claret wine or grape verjuyce, and grated manchet, and fill the scollop-shells. From Wordnik.com. [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference
Being boil'd and picked, stew them in white wine, sweet butter, nutmeg, and salt, dish them in scollop shells, and run them over with beaten butter, and juyce of orange or lemon. From Wordnik.com. [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference
Take and wipe them clean, and put them in a pie made scollop ways, or in some other pretty work, fill the pie, and put them in whole with weight for weight in refined sugar, close it up and bake it, being baked ice it. From Wordnik.com. [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference
But for "our wives" those makers of happiness and furbelows, those fabricators of smiles and frills, those gentle beings who bias and scollop and do their sacking at both ends of the bill, and sometimes in the middle, would be compelled to shut up shop, retire from business, and return to the good old city of Mantua, whence they came. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z] Reference
Boil them very well in white wine, fair water, and salt, take them out of the shells, and stew them with some of the liquor elder vinegar, two or three cloves, some large mace, and some sweet herbs chopped small; being well stewed together, dish four or five of them in scollop shells and beaten butter, with the juyce of two or three oranges. From Wordnik.com. [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference
You may bake them in large clam shells, or in the tin scollop shells made for the purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches] Reference
The shells may be tin, granite-ware, or silver-plated, or, the natural oyster or scollop shells. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Parloa's New Cook Book] Reference
He invested the greater part of this sum in "insertions" and "scollop trimmings," and returned to New York. From Wordnik.com. [Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City] Reference
You may ornament the sides and top with leaves or flowers of paste, shaped with a tin cutter, and notch or scollop the edges handsomely. From Wordnik.com. [Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches] Reference
Away across the valley and over the hills the peeping sun was a glaring scollop when I came out to take my course through the woods toward the school. From Wordnik.com. [The Jucklins A Novel] Reference
The men have also a tail in the hind part of their jacket, but of smaller dimensions; but before it is generally straight or ornamented by a single scollop. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage] Reference
Mrs Warner to buy some patty-pans, which the girls looked at with longing eyes; and he reminded them how pretty the pumpkin pies would look at their next quilting, baked in scollop-edged tins. From Wordnik.com. [My First Cruise and Other stories] Reference
What some people call "undies" had been ordered in immense quantities, sometimes heavily trimmed with Madeira work, sometimes with a plain scollop of double linen warranted to wash and wear for ever. From Wordnik.com. [Home Life in Germany] Reference
But this purchase was peremptorily refused by the good Quaker woman, alleging that scollop-edged pies were all pride and vanity, and that, if properly made, they were quite good enough baked in round plates. From Wordnik.com. [My First Cruise and Other stories] Reference
The amount which thus came to him was nearly one thousand pounds, and the greater part of this he invested in "insertions" and "scollop trimmings," which he shipped to America by the vessel in which he returned. From Wordnik.com. [Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made] Reference
It was circular, and consisted of stones immensely large and heavy at the bottom, which towards the top became thinner and thinner, having been fashioned by the hand of art to something of the shape of scollop shells. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula] Reference
They wuz like towerin 'palaces within a palace, and big towers all covered with wonderful exhibits, and cupalos, and peaks, and scollops, and every peak and every scollop ornamented and garnished beyend your wildest fancy. From Wordnik.com. [Samantha at the World's Fair] Reference
There was nothing more soothing to my thoughts and mind (the latter getting quiet from the former, I suppose) than for the whole of me to rest a while in such a little scollop of the shingle as a new-moon tide, in little crescents, leaves just below high-water mark. From Wordnik.com. [Erema — My Father's Sin] Reference
The coat was of the cut vulgarly called shad-bellied -- the waistcoat pockets hung down very low, rendered more remarkable by a triangular scollop cut out of the lower part of the front -- the breeches buttoned very tight below the knee, finely displaying a well turned calf and ancle above a thick-soled low-quartered shoe, fastened with a large white metal buckle. From Wordnik.com. [Eoneguski, or, the Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars. Vol. I.] Reference
Stir it and dredge in enough flour to make it thick, or still better, thicken it with a little white roux; now add some pepper and salt, about a quarter of a grated nutmeg, two or three spoonfuls of grated Parmesan cheese; add the cut-up macaroni and stir the whole well up over the fire together and fill the scollop shells with the mixture, and throw some grated cheese over the top. From Wordnik.com. [Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet] Reference
I reckon it ain't going to suffer none for lack of paint, "I says," when you start in to scollop the facts. ". From Wordnik.com. [Tom Sawyer, Detective] Reference
A while in such a little scollop of the shingle as a new-moon tide, in little crescents, leaves just below high-water mark. From Wordnik.com. [Erema] Reference
If the dress be of a deep shade, we would advise that the bands be made of black taffetas not quite eight inches wide, and put in between each breadth; in this style the skirt will have no trimming at the bottom, unless it be a band of black taffetas in wide scollops or festoons, one scollop reaching just across the breadth of the taffetas from one black band to the next; this should be headed by a narrow ruche of ribbon, and a similar ruche placed up each black band up the skirt. From Wordnik.com. [Confederate Receipt Book: A Compilation of over One Hundred Receipts, Adapted to the Times] Reference
The young lady's little scollop -- the one as is called Naughty Tillus -- is sent away for the winter. ". From Wordnik.com. [From Jest to Earnest] Reference
Some have scollop shells inside. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The scollop and oyster. From Wordnik.com. [The Lilac Fairy Book] Reference
2 Stewed oysters in scollop shells. From Wordnik.com. [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference
Wash them clean, and boil them in water, or beer and salt; then take them out of the shells, and beard them from gravel and stones, fry them in clarified butter, and being fryed put away some of the butter, and put to them a sauce made of some of their own liquor, some sweet herbs chopped, a little white-wine, nutmeg, three or four yolks of eggs dissolved in wine vinegar, salt, and some sliced orange; give these materials a warm or two in the frying-pan, make the sauce pretty thick, and dish them in the scollop shells. From Wordnik.com. [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference
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