 ... called wheaten flour, which the cooks do mingle with water, eggs, spice, and other tragical, magical enchantments, and then they put it by little and little into a frying-pan of boiling suet, where it makes a confused dismal hissing (like the...  THE MIRROR MONTHLY MAGAZINE. - Page 233by PERCY B. ST. JOHN - 1848Full view - About this book
 | Great Britain - 1831 - 470 pages
...Lernean snakes in the reeds of Acheron, Stix, or Phlegeton,) untill at last, by the skill of the cooke, it is transformed into the form of a Flip-Jack, called...Pancake, which ominous incantation the ignorant people do devoure very greedily.' "In the North of England, Shrove Tuesday is called Fasten' 1 Ee'n or FasUntfs... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1831 - 478 pages
...Lernean snakes in the reeds of Acheron, Stix, or Phlegeton), untill at .last, by the skill of the cooke, it is transformed into the form of a Flip-Jack, called...Pancake, which ominous incantation the ignorant people do devoure very greedily." In the North of England, Shrove Tuesday is called Fasten's Ee'n or Fasting's... | |
 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1843 - 434 pages
...it makes a confused dismal hissing (like the Lernian snakes in the reeds of Acheron), until at last, by the skill of the cook, it is transformed into the form of a lip-jack, called a pancake, vhieh ominous incantation he ignorant people do detour very greedily."... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 pages
...little, into a frying-pan of boiling suet, where it makes a confused dismal hissing .... until at last, by the skill of the cook, it is transformed into the...incantation the ignorant people do devour very greedily." A correspondent in Hone's " Every Day Book," relates that the old curfew bell at Hoddcsdon, Hertfordshire,... | |
 | 1848 - 460 pages
...pancakes!" we thunder forth in return. Batter is better than batteries, and the true protecting regis of Britannia is — the frying-pan. But raised upon...not, therefore, proud to number himself among them, anticipating the truth of a line to be thereafter written, which, with such blissful ignorance, would... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - Americanisms - 1848 - 456 pages
...and moreo'er. puddings andJlapjacks. — Pericles, II. 7, Supplement to Shakspeare. Until at last, by the skill of the cook, it is transformed into the form of a flap-jack, which, in our translation, is called a pancake. — Taylor's Jack-alent,\. p. 115. TO FLARE... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1857 - 1022 pages
...boiling suet where it makes a confined dismal hissing like the heathcan snakes, &c., until at last, by the skill of the cook, it is transformed into the form of a flip-jack called a pancake, which, with ominous incantations, the ignorant people do devour greedily." 66. CoBALnra. — FOB RESTORING... | |
 | 1856 - 678 pages
...hissing, until at last, by the skill of the cooke, it is transformed into the shape of a flap-jack, called a pancake ; which ominous incantation the ignorant people do devour very greedily." At York, there used to be, perhaps it may be so still, a Pancake bell always rung on Shrove-Tuesday,... | |
 | John Timbs - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1857 - 266 pages
...dismal hissing, like the Lethean snakes in the reeds of Acheron, Styx, or I'hlegethon, until at last, by the skill of the cook, it is transformed into the form of a flip-jack, called a pancake, which, with ominous incantations, the ignorant people do devour very greedily." Spring. It was originally... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Chronology, Historical - 1862 - 880 pages
...it makes a confused dismal hissing (like the Lernian snakes in the reeds of Acheron), until at last, by the skill of the cook, it is transformed into the...form of a flip-jack, called a pancake, which ominous iacaittatitn the ignorant people do devour very greedily.' It was customary to present the first pancake... | |
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