 | John Colin Dunlop - 1834 - 456 pages
...entertain1 Sir Richard Fanshawe's Letters, p. 3?. ments were given with immense displays of plate and embroidery. " I must not," says Lady Fanshawe, " pass...from the frontiers of Portugal, as also of the fruit and vegetables. Lady Fanshawe, who was in Spain only a few years before Madame d' Aulnoy, gives a still... | |
 | Annie Jane Harvey, Andrée Hope - 1875 - 342 pages
...same. Some chocolate was hot, some made with ice, or with milk, or with eggs. One drinks it with a biscuit, or else with some thin bread, as hard as if it were toasted, which they make on purpose. Some women will drink six cups one after another, and this twice or thrice a day.... | |
 | Aulnoy (Madame d', Marie-Catherine) - 2005 - 568 pages
...chocolate ordered with ice, and some hot, and some made with milk and eggs. One drinks it with some biscuit, or else with some thin bread as hard as if it were toasted, which they make so on purpose. There are some women which will drink six cups one after another, and this they... | |
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... or six handkerchiefs full, which they bring with them on purpose, and although they are well observed, yet no notice seems to be taken. Afterwards chocolate was presented, and every one had a china cup full on a little dish of agate set in gold, with... 