croutes-au-pot

Updated: May 27, 2025

Ah! here comes the soup," he added, as a man in blue blouse and breeches, with sabots on his feet, slouched into the room, carrying a tureen which he incontinently placed upon the table. "I feel sure that in England Lady Blakeney misses our excellent croutes-au-pot, the glory of our bourgeois cookery Lady Blakeney, a little soup?" "I thank you, sir," she murmured.

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