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Updated: May 28, 2025
They had wheat-bread the whole week round, as only rich folk could afford, with fruit and berries in their season, and honey from the Surrey bee-farms that made one's mouth water with the sight of it dripping from the flaky comb; and on Fridays spitchcocked eels, pickled herrings, and plums, with simnel-cakes, poached eggs and milk, cream cheese and cordial, like very kings; so that Nick could not help thriving.
Then he turned to M. Leblanc with a horrible look, and spit out these words: "Done for! Smoked brown! Cooked! Spitchcocked!" And again he began to march back and forth, in full eruption. "Ah!" he cried, "so I've found you again at last, Mister philanthropist! Mister threadbare millionnaire! Mister giver of dolls! you old ninny! Ah! so you don't recognize me!
In every creek one may catch eels, and they are excellent eating, if they be cooked in such a manner as to get rid of the oil. Try them spitchcocked or stewed, They're too oily when fried, as Barham says, with his usual good sense.
His smile was rare and, as is often the case with a rare smile, it held accumulated charm. "Sir," he said, "let me cook a meal for you." While Lewis cooked, the stranger laid the table for two. In less than an hour the meal was ready. A young fowl, spitchcocked, nestled in a snowy bed of rice, each grain of which was a world unto itself.
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