goose-dressing

Updated: May 18, 2025

The dressing of beechnuts proved a rare success, but the preparation proved so long a process that only the delicate young bird made ready for the table where Mistress Brewster presided was thus honored, although in after times Priscilla often made what she called goose-dressing; and when a few years later some sweet potatoes were brought to Plymouth from the Carolinas, she at once adopted them for the same purpose.

Jane G. (Jane Goodwin) Austin - Standish of Standish: A story of the Pilgrims