"Truffle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tablespoonful of tomato catsup, a tablespoonful of chopped parsley; add the meat; stand over the back part of the stove until thoroughly hot; serve on a heated platter garnished with triangular pieces of toasted bread. A few left-over olives, mushrooms, or even a chopped truffle, may be added. ...
— Made-Over Dishes • S. T. Rorer
... put a bit of butter on each yolk. Place in a quick oven till the whites are half set. At the moment of serving take them out, and have ready some minced tongue or ham, to sprinkle on them, and decorate with a big bit of truffle. ...
— The Belgian Cookbook • various various
... without religion, nose dry as a lute table, pale nose, nose without a soul, nose which is nothing but a shadow; nose which sees not, nose wrinkled like the leaf of a vine; nose that I hate, old nose, nose full of mud—dead nose. Where had my eyes been to attach myself to truffle nose, to this old hulk that no longer knows his way? I give my share to the devil of this juiceless beard, of this grey beard, of this monkey face, of these old tatters, of this old rag of a man, of this—I know not what; and I'll take a young husband ...
— Droll Stories, Volume 2 • Honore de Balzac
... to our correspondent for her information and the humane suggestion with which it is coupled. Truffle-hunting is indeed a noble ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, June 6, 1917 • Various
... partridges as the size of pie to be made may require. Put a whole raw truffle, peeled, into each partridge, and fill up the remaining space in each bird with good forcemeat. Make a raised crust; lay a few slices of veal in the bottom, and a thick layer of forcemeat; then the partridges, ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous
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