"Lentil soup" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... poverty that, after she had finished the heavier tasks, she should set to work to mark the religious day by a freshly washed cloth upon the table, with a bowl of red roses picked from the bush that grew by the doorway, and a gala supper of new-laid eggs, lentil soup ...
— Roads from Rome • Anne C. E. Allinson
... the boys could not unravel, yet they hurried to wash and dry their hands, the cloth was spread neatly, napkins put to the places, and the dishes on, when a trim-looking girl came in carrying a long basket in which was a bucket of lentil soup, a roast of veal with vegetables and a ...
— Pixy's Holiday Journey • George Lang
... Soup (1) Leek Soup (2) Leeks Lemon Blancmange Lemon Cakes Lemon Cream Lemon Cream Tarts Lemon Pudding Lemon Tart Lemon Trifle Lentil Flour Pudding Lentil Omelet Lentil Pie Lentil Rissoles Lentil Soup Lentil Turnovers Lentils and Rice Lentils, Curried, & Rice Lentils, Potted, for Sandwiches Light Cakes ...
— The Allinson Vegetarian Cookery Book • Thomas R. Allinson
... welcome, Heracles! come in, sweetheart. My Lady, when they told her, set to work, Baked mighty loaves, boiled two or three tureens Of lentil soup, roasted a prime ox whole, Made rolls and honey-cakes. So ...
— The Frogs • Aristophanes
... I came out an old man told us they received three loaves (cakes as big as a sailor's biscuit), four piastres a month—i.e., eightpence per adult—a suit of clothes a year, and on festive occasions lentil soup. Such is the almshouse here. A little crowd belonging to the house had collected, and I gave sixpence to an old man, who transferred it to the first old man to be divided among them all, ten or twelve people at least, mostly blind ...
— Letters from Egypt • Lucie Duff Gordon |
