And notwithstanding these cones were dripping with soft balsam, and covered with prickles, and so strongly put together that a boy would be puzzled to cut them open with a jack-knife, he accomplished his meal with easy dignity and cleanliness, making less effort apparently than a man would in eating soft cookery from a plate.

Fry them in hot lard or clarified dripping of a nice colour, and serve them on a napkin, garnished with fried parsley.

" "And therefore your Holiness has brought these rats upon us, enlisted, I nothing doubt, in the infernal regions?" "Precisely so: Plutonic, necyomantic, Lemurian rats, kindly lent by the Prince of Darkness for the occasion, and come dripping from Styx to squeak and gibber in the Capitol.

Heat some dripping in a large saucepan; add the prawns, 1 chopped onion, salt, pepper and 1 teaspoonful of curry-powder.

O it's dripping on the dark green stones from out the Northern Sky.

Cut the beef into small pieces, and roll them in flour; put the dripping into a stewpan with the onion, which should be sliced thin.

Then with a wooden spoon beat the dripping to a liquid; add it, with the other ingredients, to the dough, and beat it until everything is very thoroughly mixed.

But a fitful sleep, and soon again I woke; and a long time I lay so, gradually becoming conscious of a slow dripping at one spot in the cave: for at a minute's interval it darkly splashed, regularly, very deliberately; and it seemed to grow always louder and sadder, and the splash at first was 'Leesha,' but it became 'Leda' to my ears, and it sobbed her name, and I pitied myself, so sad was I.

He can classify dripping by instinct.

We landed and I rushed, puffing and dripping like a porpoise, to the wall gate, unlocked it and entered.

Melt one-half tablespoon of butter or savory drippings in a pan; put in the hash, spreading it evenly and dropping small pieces of butter or drippings over the top.

When meat or soup stock is used substitute drippings for the butter in the above recipe.

POTATO CAKES Made just as pancakes, only baked in the oven in a long cake pan with plenty of butter or drippings under and above.

Baste often with the dripping until tender.

He reached the bank, climbed up, and stood dripping before the four young travelers.