'And I want you to give the haslet, all of it, to this fellow they call Jan of the Beech Trees. From Wordnik.com. [Poland]
New legislation would see the resurgence of independently-run local shops, run by surly harridans selling overpriced tins of out-of-date haslet. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
In this prudent way every portion of the Castle Gorka hogs was utilized: the good cuts for the banquet, the tougher ones in Pani Danusia's pierogi, the haslet in. From Wordnik.com. [Poland]
There was not a hog killed within three parishes of him whereof he had not some part of the haslet and puddings. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3] Reference
Rowntree plans to introduce Lincolnshire sausages and other pork specialities, including chine and haslet, from his father's farm. From Wordnik.com. [Rss news feed for Morning Advertiser] Reference
= -- You can generally buy a pig's brain and haslet at the slaughter house for about ten cents; wash them thoroughly; slice the heart, liver, and lights, and fry them light brown in a cents 'worth of drippings. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six] Reference
Two things he was particularly fond of, and upon which he flourished whenever he could get them -- turnip greens and "hog's gullicks," the "Adam's apple" of a hog's haslet, or the "google," as it is commonly called. From Wordnik.com. [Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters] Reference
"When I was a young man, a old man stole the head and pluck (pluck is the liver and lites) out of the hog (some people call it the haslet) and hid it up in the loft of his house. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4] Reference
Make a suet crust, as directed for SUET DUMPLINGS, (cost five cents,) roll out a cover for the pudding, line the edges of the dish two inches down with it, and put any bits you may have remaining, into the dish in layers with the haslet and brain sliced; season the pudding with one level tablespoonful of salt, one onion chopped, and half a level teaspoonful of pepper; cover it with the suet crust, and bake it for about an hour in a moderate oven. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six] Reference
When Jan of the Beech Trees brought the package of haslet home to his wife, Anulka, and she turned back the wrapping and saw that she was to have real meat, and in such unbelievable quantity, she started to cry, for it had been more than a year since she and her husband had eaten anything but cabbage and kasha and beets, and now and then a slab of fat containing no meat whatever, and she could scarcely credit the good luck that had befallen her family. From Wordnik.com. [Poland]
Hog's-haslet. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4] Reference
Hog’s-haslet. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
Today's WOD was "haslet.". From Wordnik.com. [ccfinlay: Article Adjective Noun] Reference
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