"Souffle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... RICE SOUFFLE. Blanch some Carolina rice, strain and boil it in milk, with lemon peel and a bit of cinnamon. Let it boil till the rice is dry; then cool it, and raise a rim three inches high round the dish, having egged the dish ...
— The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, • Mary Eaton
... reconnaissante ouvre assez grand son coeur pour les contenir tous, les plus humbles comme les plus illustrs, les hros tombs avec gloire qui l'on prepare des monuments de marbre et de bronze et qui vivront dans l'histoire, et les simples qui rendirent leur dernier souffle en ...
— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy
... D'un souffle l'aquilon carte les nuages, 985 Et chasse au loin la foudre et les orages. Un roi sage, ennemi du langage menteur, carte d'un regard ...
— Esther • Jean Racine
... she retorted with a long and merry laugh, "Faith man! we talk of nothing else. . . . We have hats 'a la Scarlet Pimpernel'; our horses are called 'Scarlet Pimpernel'; at the Prince of Wales' supper party the other night we had a 'souffle a la Scarlet Pimpernel.' . . . Lud!" she added gaily, "the other day I ordered at my milliner's a blue dress trimmed with green, and bless me, if she did not call that 'a ...
— The Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy
... too fine, but I don't object to your making a few extra frais when you receive friends. Of course, you don't do it often, and only those whom it is your interest to feter. The cutlets were excellent, and the souffle uncommonly light and good. The third bottle of champagne was not necessary; but you have a good income, and as long as you keep within it, I shall not quarrel with ...
— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray
... tranquille, Voguant soir et matin, Ma nacelle est docile Au souffle du destin. La voile s'enfie-t-elle, J'abandonne le bord. (O doux zephir, sois-moi fidele!) Eh! vogue, ma ...
— The King's Highway • G. P. R. James
... Frozen Zabajone Genoise Pastry Omelette Souffle Marmalade Pudding Amherst Pudding Brown Betty Chocolate Pudding Bread and Molasses Pudding Baked Bananas Hermits Lady Baltimore Cake Silver Cake Gold Cake Fig ...
— Joe Tilden's Recipes for Epicures • Joe Tilden
... seldom idle, she never developed her intellectual powers or sustained herself by reading or study of any kind. She had not the smallest sense of proportion and, if anything went wrong in her entertainments—cold plates, a flat souffle, or some one throwing her over for dinner—she became almost impotent from agitation, only excusable if it had been some great public disaster. She and Mr. Harry Higgins—an exceptionally clever and devoted friend of mine—having revived the opera, Bohemian society became her hobby; ...
— Margot Asquith, An Autobiography: Volumes I & II • Margot Asquith
... waving a crumpet which she had just rescued from Winthrop. "Hark!" she said, "there's the nursery curfew!—and not one wretched infant bathed! Billy! March bathward, my son! Drina, sweetheart, take command. Prune souffle for the obedient, dry bread for rebels! Come, children!—don't let mother speak to ...
— The Younger Set • Robert W. Chambers
... do not come here expecting Ritz specialities or a Savoy chef d'oeuvre. We want those special hors d'oeuvres which you know all about, a sole grilled a la maison, a plainly roasted chicken with an endive salad. The sweets are your affair. The savoury must be a cheese souffle. ...
— Nobody's Man • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... Bananas Compote of Pears Compote of Raspberries Dried Fruits Fig Sauce Fried Apples Frosted Apples Grape-fruit Huckleberry Compote Oranges Peaches Peach Compote Pineapple Pineapple Compote Pineapple Souffle Prune Souffle Prunes without Sugar Raspberry Raspberry and Currants Ripe Tomatoes Rhubarb Sauce Snowflakes Steamed Prunes Stewed Prunes Strawberries Sweet Apples, Steamed Sweet Entree ...
— The International Jewish Cook Book • Florence Kreisler Greenbaum
... She had almost a genius for flavouring. Roast or cheese souffle or green apple pie—your sense of taste never experienced that disappointment which comes of too little salt, too much sugar, a lack of shortening. Expert as she was at it, Cora didn't like to cook. That is, she didn't like ...
— Gigolo • Edna Ferber |
