| 释义 |
squab-pie
Also squob-pie.
[Cf. squab n. Chiefly current in western and south-western counties of England.]
A pie chiefly composed of mutton, pork, apples, and onions, with a thick crust.
1708W. King Cookery 164 Cornwall squab-pye, and Devon white-pot brings. 1778Mores Diss. Typogr. Founders 69 note, Probably he was a Gloucestershire man and remembered squab-pie, an olla podrida of horrible ingredients. 1800Southey in Cottle Rem. Coleridge & S. (1847) 22 Neither Pilchards, White-ale or Squab-pie were to be obtained. 1865Kingsley Herew. v, Most savoury of all the smell of fifty huge squab pies. 1880Adam & Eve 281 Laden with the remnants of a squab-pie..and a couple of apple pasties.
fig.1897Jane Lordship xix. 209 The great matter being that I had made squob-pie of Robert. |