Word: mutton
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wealthier friend may afford him. The school is divided into classes or 'forms.' The sixth-form boys breakfast in their own rooms, as they do afterwards when they enter the universities. . . . The boys of each house dine together in a common hall; no soup; roast beef or mutton, bread and dessert of 'sweets.' The school provides each boy with beer; wines are not allowed. There is a very simple tea at six, and supper of bread and cheese and, I believe, cold meat, if one wants it, before going...
...before the day of rowing, it would tend to a nervousness which would probably effect the result. As regards food, Dr. Sargent said he would give a man to eat what his natural appetite craved, but the kind of food depended on what he had to do. Beef and mutton were the foundation of the diet, and oat meal, graham bread, cracked wheat and vegetables were all good, but pastry, condiments and made dishes should never be used. He believed in letting a man drink all the cold water a systematic thirst required, and that if it was really necessary...
...week beef is always marked twenty-five cents all the other nights of that week. I have studied over this problem and have dined out of the hall on different nights with the express purpose of testing the fact, but I am invariably caught, on my return, with boiled mutton and turkey wings...
...variety of dishes at dinner, and while preserving the best quality of food, to have but one roast at dinner, and roast beef not more than four times a week. He shall, however, add to the order list for dinner roast beef, turkey and chicken at 20 cents, and mutton at 15 cents, and beef steak and mutton chops at 15 cents. These articles when not selected for the regular bill of fare shall be kept on hand ready to fill orders...
...dainty note, my Ariel! - "They call me Mutton-Broth...