10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COCKIELEEKIE»
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cockieleekie in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Roland Cashel (Complete)
Charles James Lever. "What is that?" said Miss Kennyfeck, who saw with a sharp
malice how angrily Lady Janet looked at the notion of the coming explanation. "I '
ll tellye wi'pleasure, MissKannyfack, hooto mak'a cockieleekie!" "Cockieleekie ...
Charles James Lever, 1920
2
Collins Gem Scots Dictionary (Collins Gem)
cockieleekie. Cockaleekie is a soupmade from a fowl boiled with leeks. Some
recipes include prunes. fae(fay). or. frae. (fray) Fae means from:some guy fae
Tollcross; Where'd he get that fae? The variantform is given anentryof its own, ...
Collins Dictionaries, 2014
3
The wells o' Wearie, and other stories
The table groaned under huge rounds of beef and jigots of mutton, haggises,
hotch-potch, cockieleekie, kippert salmon, howtowdies, herrings from the
Broomielaw, partans, oysters, and sheep's head and trotters ad infinitum, washed
down by ...
However, the existing thirty Mesdames Cockieleekie and their progeny were all
there, and we left a card on the senior chieftainess, who was squatting on all
fours inside a hut. She treated it with contempt, not unmingled with aversion.
Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, 1898
5
The Gaberlunzie's Wallet
Gin I may judge o' my neighbours' stamacks frae the state o' my ain, we're mair
needfu' than nice at present ; an' now," continued he, after saying grace, and
supplying each with a plate of excellent cockieleekie, "just win too, and begin.
... to partake of their cockieleekie, would showthemsheknew bothwhata dinner
oughttobe,andhowtopresideat it;andthesoup it should be cockieleekie.
Everything went comfortably. Gibbie wassowell up in mathematics, thanks to Mr.
Sclater, that, ...
7
The Farmer's Guide to Scientific and Practical Agriculture: ...
The older birds may be boiled by themselves, and eaten with bacon, or assist in
making broth, or that once favourite winter-soup iu Scotland — cockieleekie. A
chicken never eats more tenderly than when killed a short time before being ...
Henry Stephens, John Pitkin Norton, 1850
8
Still Hunting: A Memoir
... in the '50s. He had been a colonel in a Scottish regiment in the war and still
sported a splendid military moustache. He consulted gravely with a horse-faced
waiter and ordered for us: game pate, cockieleekie, mixed grill, and a savoury ...
9
The Man in the moon, ed. by A. Smith and A.B. Reach
2. Lucifer, a Poem. 3. Is the Gallows the best Cure for Ireland? 4. Trial by Battle. 5.
English Lobscouse, and Scotch Cockieleekie. 6. Tennyson's "Heir Apparent." 7.
The Quadrature of the Circle, and the Rectilineal Longitudinal Equation. 8. Peel.
10
Fores's Sporting Notes and Sketches
A bundle quick he tumbles in, with onions, sage, and leeks — As much as would
a coster take to sell for weeks and weeks. Says Sandy, ' Man, that's varra weel,
but gie me curly kail ; For cockieleekie or the like of plants it is the wale.* Then in
a ...
