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  • Take a bit of mutton-suet and fine flour, and clean off the work.

    Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young

  • I have never doubted that they all use water for cooking; but such an insipid, silly water-broth, in which not a single bubble of mutton-suet is visible, surprises me.

    The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle Kuno Francke 1892

  • Réaumur, the French naturalist, has shown that it is only necessary to stop up its pores with a slight coating of varnish or mutton-suet.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

  • When full, pour boiling water on the plums, until it stands one inch above the fruit; cut a piece of paper to fit the inside of the jar, over which pour melted mutton-suet; cover down with brown paper, and keep the jars in a dry cool place.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

  • Réaumur, the French naturalist, has shown that it is only necessary to stop up its pores with a slight coating of varnish or mutton-suet.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

  • When full, pour boiling water on the plums, until it stands one inch above the fruit; cut a piece of paper to fit the inside of the jar, over which pour melted mutton-suet; cover down with brown paper, and keep the jars in a dry cool place.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

  • If men that keep bees will mix a little wax with the grease, it will give it a consistency, and render it more cleanly, and make the rushes burn longer; mutton-suet would have the same effect.

    The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 Gilbert White 1756

  • Messrs Codex and Podex, and under his own benefiction of their pastor Father Flammeus Falconer, boycotted him of all mutton-suet candles and romeruled stationery for any purpose, he winged away on a wildgoup’s chase across the kathartic ocean and made synthetic ink and sensitive paper for his own end out of his wit’s waste.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Away with thee, child, for it is now sundown, and the wretch goeth to bed with the birds to save mutton-suet — faugh!”

    Kenilworth 2004

  • -- Away with thee, child, for it is now sundown, and the wretch goeth to bed with the birds to save mutton-suet -- faugh! "

    Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801

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