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Then a substantial sweet: a coupe aux marrons or a nesselrode pudding, yes?" Kedzie wanted to ask for a plain, familiar vanilla ice-cream, but she knew better. She ordered the nesselrode and got her ice-cream, after all. There were chestnuts in it, too so she was glad she had not selected the coupe aux marrons.
He turned sharply and resolutely to go to Morley's, and collided with Mr. Dolbiac, who, strangely enough, was standing immediately behind him, and gazing up the stairs, too. 'Ah, my bold buccaneer! said Mr. Dolbiac familiarly. 'Digested those marrons glacés? I've fairly caught you out this time, haven't I? Henry stared at him, startled, and blushed a deep crimson. 'You don't remember me.
Ainsworth; she talks such good nonsense. She told us gravely, the other day, that the Druses were much more interesting than the Maronites, because they sounded like Drusus and Rome, whereas the Maronites were only like marrons glaces, etc. The H s are at Norris Green. Mrs. H. is becoming "devout," and will go to church on Wednesdays and Fridays. I want news from your side.
I misgave more than ever, and having once launched Reginald on to the McKillops' lawn, I established him near a seductive dish of marrons glaces, and as far from the Archdeacon's wife as possible; as I drifted away to a diplomatic distance I heard with painful distinctness the eldest Mawkby girl asking him if he had seen San Toy.
However when all had taken as much tea and cakes and marrons glacés as they cared for David was so shy that he had only one cup of tea and one piece of tea-cake the large group broke up into five smaller ones.
In the centre is an enormous fruit like a dark orange-coloured melon, surrounded by heaps of others, while the plain brown chestnuts, that don't attract much notice, are really the best of all, for they are the marrons glacés for which Marseilles is famed, and once you have tasted these, freshly made, all other sweets will seem insipid to you.
A lobster next made its appearance, then an Arles sausage, marrons glaces and cherries, the first of the season!
As a further guide to those who in the goodness of their hearts may undertake a search for him in his remaining haunts and refuges, it should be stated that he was no German wild boar, or English pork pie on the hoof, and that he was never cooked French style, or doctored up with anchovies, caviar, marrons glacés, pickled capers out of a bottle where many of the best capers of the pickled variety come from imported truffles, Mexican tamales or Hawaiian poi.
A fad which, moreover, she thought was bound to amuse other people so much that in Paris, when M. Swann called on New Year's Day bringing her a little packet of marrons glaces, she never failed, if there were strangers in the room, to say to him: "Well, M. Swann, and do you still live next door to the Bonded Vaults, so as to be sure of not missing your train when you go to Lyons?" and she would peep out of the corner of her eye, over her glasses, at the other visitors.
1 small bottle, or sixteen preserved marrons 1 quart of cream 4 ounces of sugar 4 tablespoonfuls of sherry 1 tablespoonful of vanilla Yolks of six eggs Put half the cream in a double boiler over the fire; when hot, add the eggs and sugar beaten until light. Cook a minute, and cool.
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