custard-cups

Poor Mrs. Sprowle was fighting the party over in her dream; and as the visionary custard-cups crashed down through one lobe of her brain into another, she gave a start as if an inch of lightning from a quart

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 Various

Mix this thoroughly with the bread and place in well-buttered custard-cups.

Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes and Home Made Candy Recipes Maria Parloa 1876

Bring the cream to the boiling-point, and pour it very gradually to the other ingredients, and beat the mixture till nearly cold; put it into custard-cups, place the cups in a deep dish of boiling water, where let them remain till quite cold.

The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

Bring the cream to the boiling-point, and pour it very gradually to the other ingredients, and beat the mixture till nearly cold; put it into custard-cups, place the cups in a deep dish of boiling water, where let them remain till quite cold.

The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

Poor Mrs. Sprowle was fighting the party over in her dream; and as the visionary custard-cups crashed down through one lobe of her brain into another, she gave a start as if an inch of lightning from a quart Leyden jar had jumped into one of her knuckles with its sudden and lively poonk!

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

Poor Mrs. Sprowle was fighting the party over in her dream; and as the visionary custard-cups crashed down through one lobe of her brain into another, she gave a start as if an inch of lightning from a quart Leyden jar had jumped into one of her knuckles with its sudden and lively poonk!

Elsie Venner Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

The dancing in general was ceremonious, and the music rather solemn -- a little like church music in fact -- but after the custard-cups, Mr Feeder told Mr

Dombey and Son Charles Dickens 1841

Mr Feeder, after imbibing several custard-cups of negus, began to enjoy himself.

Dombey and Son Charles Dickens 1841

Such a circumstance, Mr Feeder said aloud, as had never happened in the case of any former young gentleman within his experience; but it would be difficult to say if this were sober fact or custard-cups.

Dombey and Son Charles Dickens 1841

A little boy returning from the city, several miles, with a basket of empty custard-cups, the contents of which he had probably sold at the depot.

Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834