Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Fish boiled and served in its own liquor. See
zoutch , v. t.
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Examples
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Dorking was famous for a particular way of making water-souchy, a delicious dish of various fishes, of which Mr. J.L. André in the _Surrey Archæological Collections_, has preserved the recipe rescued from an 1833 cookery book 'by a L.dy': --
Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912
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It was a famous house in the seventeenth century, and cooked the Mole trout as well as the Dorking inns cooked their water-souchy of carp and tench.
Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912
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It was cruel to behold such expanse of corn every where, and yet see it all turned to a water-souchy.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757
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They tell me my hay will be spoiled for want of cutting; but I had rather it should be destroyed by standing than by being mowed, as the former will cost me nothing but the crop, and 'tis very dear to make nothing but a water-souchy of it.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757
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