saddle of mutton

Right between the saddle of mutton and the boiled potatoes.

There was a saddle of mutton for the main course, and it was done to perfection.

Martin, a chop-house bachelor until his recent marriage, had never carved a saddle of mutton.

This was in turn followed by a magnificent saddle of mutton, with a tongue, a ham, and two roast fowls.

He carved the saddle of mutton savagely, as if he were rending his parishioners.

Salt said, attacking a saddle of mutton with a terrible knife and sculpturing the meat with precision.

Lady Docker and Hill posed for photographs together, while champagne and saddles of mutton were served.

Give me a properly cooked haunch of beef or a saddle of mutton and..." His mind seemed to jump.

Is that delectable aroma indicative of a saddle of mutton in our vicinity, Mrs. Jenny?"

Lord Alderscroft contemplated the saddle of mutton before him with gloom, while Peter Scott waited for the apology he already knew was forthcoming.

Lee went through the sheaf one by one, occasionally pausing to cut another bite from the slice of saddle of mutton in front of him.

So Lord Kiely was not a welcome visitor following the General's customary early dinner of roast saddle of mutton with vinegar sauce.

Roasts were beef, veal, saddle of mutton, turkey, saddle of lamp, venison with currant jelly, ducks.

You've never tasted anything like it; and great sirloins of beef and saddles of mutton, and an old-fashioned English tea and a wonderful English breakfast.

He stayed long with Harriet; he stayed for a meal, sat at the long table in the cool dining-room and carved the saddle of mutton for her.

Jane was roasting a saddle of mutton for dinner as she had cooked mutton most days of her married life; they ate a sheep in about ten days.

Selle de mouton purée Bretonne is saddle of mutton with a purée of broad beans bound with Breton sauce.

Sir Stafford Northcote--a steady chap; at old Forsyte dinner-parties in the eighties his character had been as much a standby as the saddle of mutton.

Though / am assured the inhabitants of Scotland esteem this dish a particular delicacy, / sent it to the kitchens and requested a plain boiled saddle of mutton in its place.

The first course of saddle of mutton, veal and sirloin of beef was followed by baked plum pudding and lamb fricassee, then a hot flan with chickens and spinach.

Trenchers were set down in front of Duncan and Conrad, then a huge platter with a haunch of beef on one end of it, a saddle of mutton on the other.

Although this dinner, whose main dishes were a fourhundred-pound turtle and a saddle of mutton from the Cape, was eaten in a humid ninety degrees, it did restore a semblance of civility, if not more.

There had been a suckling pig, resting on a platter with an apple in its mouth, a haunch of venison, a ham, a saddle of mutton, a brace of geese, and a peacock pie.

Thirty years later the elderly George Lyttelton reminisced, "Did you never know the agonising choice put before you in the pre-war Simpson's - saddle of mutton or beef ... both perfect of their kind?"

Whatever the exchange portended, however, must not have been to his benefit, as the lady shortly after welcomed another gentleman to her table with every evidence of pleasure, and Reggie applied himself to his saddle of mutton with an air of having been defeated.