"Junket" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a programme for three weeks of heaven, sheer Bliss, if you add to the scheme Farm eggs and bacon and junket and Devonshire Cream. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 1st, 1920 • Various
... declared the Englishman miserably. "I don't see why I don't go down and be a hog again... we'll finally starve... Somehow I had a mind to die sober... God knows why I ever came on such a junket." ...
— The Cruise of the Dry Dock • T. S. Stribling
... was a Tradesman, [no [1]] less full of the Age than the former; for he had the Gallantry to tell me, that at a late Junket which he was invited to, the Motion being made, and the Question being put, twas by Maid, Wife and Widow resolved nemine contradicente, That a young sprightly Journeyman is absolutely necessary in their Way of Business: To which they had the Assent and Concurrence of the Husbands present. ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
... a junket,' replied Manto, 'above all things. And, indeed, I was half frightened out of my wits at the bare idea of toiling over this desert. All is prepared, please your Majesty, for our landing. Your Majesty's litter ...
— The Infernal Marriage • Benjamin Disraeli
... style and custom corresponding to the "afternoon tea" now in vogue. It may be more desirable to indicate of what it consisted, seeing that tea and coffee were yet mysteries of the future. There were cakes of all varieties; there was clotted cream; and of course there was junket. There were apple puffs, and syllabubs, and half-a-dozen different kinds of preserves. In the place which is now occupied by the tea-pot was a gallon of sack, flanked by a flagon of Gascon wine; beside which stood large jugs of new milk and home-brewed ale. ...
— Robin Tremain - A Story of the Marian Persecution • Emily Sarah Holt
... may take skimmed milk, raw scraped beef, junket, and coddled white of egg or raw egg, ...
— The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • Grant Hague
... Junket s. curds and cream with spices and sugar, &c., from Ital. giuncata, cased in rushes; from giunco, a rush; a name given in Italy to a ...
— A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire • Wadham Pigott Williams
... to know what there was? Devonshire cream, of course; and part of a large dish of junket, which is something like curds and whey. Lots of bread-and-butter and cheese, and half an apple-pudding. Also a great jug of cider and another of milk, and several half-full glasses, and no end of dirty plates, ...
— The Adventures of A Brownie - As Told to My Child by Miss Mulock • Miss Mulock |
