barter-puddings

Updated: May 28, 2025

Then there was the contrast between the dinners which she had to share with her scholars at Ashcombe rounds of beef, legs of mutton, great dishes of potatoes, and large barter-puddings, with the tiny meal of exquisitely cooked delicacies, sent up on old Chelsea china, that was served every day to the earl and countess and herself at the Towers.

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Wives and Daughters