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If I exclaim, par exemple, tarte, it means false; if I say gilet de flanelle, it is lemonade; if I say frise, it means a Jew; or casserole, which is in our own tongue a police officer. So you see it is a little difficult is it not? To us tire-jus is a handkerchief, and we call the ville de Paris Pantruche." Hugh sat in wonder.
"I don't absolutely catch the drift, old bean," said Archie. The boy sniffed with half-closed eyes as a wave of perfume from the poulet en casserole floated past him. He seemed to be anxious to intercept as much of it as possible before it got through the door. "Mother's a food-reformer," he vouchsafed. "She lectures on it. She makes Pop and me live on vegetables and nuts and things."
"It doesn't smell bad, what!" "It smells GOOD!" said the boy. "Oh, doesn't it! Wake me up in the night and ask me if it doesn't!" "Poulet en casserole," said Archie. "Golly!" said the boy, reverently. There was a pause. The situation began to seem to Archie a trifle difficult.
Once I saw ostensible 'possum at a French restaurant in New York. It was advertised as Opossum, Southern style, and it was chopped up fine and cooked in a sort of casserole effect, with green peas and carrots and various other things mixed in along with it.
Bake chicken in covered casserole until nearly tender, then add three potatoes cut in dice; boil small pieces of carrots, green peas, and small white onions each to be boiled separately. Just before serving, thicken gravy with a teaspoon of flour mixed with a half cup of soup stock or water. Season to taste and place vegetables around the dish. Make chicken soup with an old hen.
Put a layer of eggs in the bottom of a casserole, or baking dish, then a layer of the fish or chicken, then a little white sauce, and so continue until the ingredients are used. Dust the top thickly with bread crumbs and bake in a moderate oven until nicely browned. Hard-boil the eggs, chop them fine, mix them with the meat, add the salt, pepper and parsley.
The meal which that hotel restaurant served was as good as in peace times. Who deserves a good meal if not the officer who comes in from the front? And madame sees that he gets it. She is as proud of her poulet en casserole as any commander of a soixante-quinze battery of its practice. There was steam heat, too, in the hotel, which gave an American a homelike feeling.
Out on the hills, there, was a shepherd; he'd got two live geese swinging by their feet. They were screeching screeching screeching! and they looked so nice and so plump that I could smell them, as if they were stewing in a casserole, till I began to get as hungry as a gamin.
The gray cat was cheated of its prey, and in due course the casserole containing the stew was borne into the dining room and the dish was served. Suddenly Mr. Newbegin contorted his mouth and exclaimed: "Heck! A mouse!" It was. The head waiter was summoned, the manager, the owner. Guests and garçons crowded about Tutt and Mr. Newbegin to inspect what had so unexpectedly been found.
It became an incubator shop, and tiny coloured babies squirmed mysteriously where once the casserole steamed. The neighbourhood is rich in gastronomical memories. At the same corner for twenty years the chop-house of John Wallace flourished. In the eighties it was one of the few chop-houses uptown. There was a flavour of Bohemia about the clientèle.
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