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Among the Kachins of Burma the ferment used in making beer is prepared by two women, chosen by lot, who during the three days that the process lasts may eat nothing acid and may have no conjugal relations with their husbands; otherwise it is supposed that the beer would be sour.
She felt so sour and unrelenting that for a few minutes she almost forgot about Dickon and the green veil creeping over the world and the soft wind blowing down from the moor. Martha was waiting for her and the trouble in her face had been temporarily replaced by interest and curiosity.
One pint of sour cream, two eggs, one pint of flour, one tablespoonful of corn meal, one teaspoonful of soda, half a teaspoonful of salt. Beat the eggs separately, mix the cream with the beaten yolks, stir in the flour, corn meal and salt; add the soda dissolved in a little sweet milk, and, lastly, the whites beaten to a stiff froth. RICE WAFFLES. No. 1.
That sour wisdom, the measureless belief in himself and his opinions, with the independence which accompanied it, were found in a slender, delicate, and rosy-faced youth, with eyes as blue as forget-me-nots, and came from lips slightly faded, but marked by a tiny, youthful moustache.
Just think what the gossips would say. As a relative, and one who would not like to see our good name trailed as a garment, I warn you not to think of such a thing as visiting that man Bordine." Rose regarded the speaker keenly. Even with a sad feeling tugging at her heart, she could not but understand that it was sour grapes with Janet Williams.
He then gave certain orders to his people, and after a little delay, two loads of flour arrived, together with a goat and two jars of sour plantain cider. These presents he ordered to be forwarded to Kisoona.
The crab consenting, the ape climbed up into the tree, and began eating all the ripe fruit himself, while he only threw down the sour persimmons to the crab, inviting him, at the same time, to eat heartily. The crab, however, was not pleased at this arrangement, and thought that it was his turn to play a trick upon the ape; so he called out to him to come down head foremost.
"Suppose, then, it had been a crab-apple, and the baby had still said 'um, um, what would it then have meant?" "Plainly this: 'that is not a nice apple, and I would not like to have any." "That is perfectly satisfactory," said Ralph;"'um, um, expresses either the desire to possess a sweet apple, or the objection to a sour one.
How sweetly, in a French billet, did she accept the offerings of the children and how natural her ferocious attack on these same children after she had been extremely sick as a result of a mixed diet of chocolate and cherries to which they had tempted her. And did she not suffer indignities enough to sour the sweetest disposition.
Mrs. Blake looked very sour when she saw my new things. 'You think to catch a young man with those, says she. 'You gells is all alike. But it isn't fine feathers as catches a husband, as they say. Don't you believe it. And I said, 'No; a husband as was caught so easy might be as easy got rid of, which was convenient sometimes. And we come nigh to having words about it.
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