Manchet

Eli even invited him to break a manchet and drink a stoup of wine to give him heart for his journey. ❋ Charles Reade (1849)

He sopped up the last of the gravy with a piece of manchet bread and continued to eat. ❋ Kate Emerson (2010)

I once saw him try to eat a piece of manchet, but it took him two hours just to gnaw down one bite. ❋ Karen Hawkins (2010)

He shakes his head and spoons himself another bowl of stewed beef and a slice of manchet bread. ❋ Philippa Gregory (2010)

Then he breaks some manchet bread and pulls the white soft crumb inside the crunchy crust. ❋ Philippa Gregory (2010)

That by two manchet-cakes of bread of Tewarij329 did lie! ❋ Unknown (2006)

Percy and Master Thomas Percy had half a loaf of household bread, a manchet, a pottle of beer, a dish of butter, a piece of salt fish, and a dish of sprats or three white herrings; and the nursery breakfast for my lady Margaret and Master Ingram Percy was much the same. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The manchet was sometimes thought to be sufficient without butter, as we now eat a scone. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Chip a manchet very well, and cut it round ways in toasts, then take cream and eight eggs seasoned with sack, sugar, and nutmeg, and let these toasts steep in it about an hour, then fry them in sweet butter, serve them up with plain melted butter, or with butter, sack and sugar as you please. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Grate an old penny loaf, put to it a like quantity of suet shred, a nutmeg grated, a little salt and some currans, then beat some eggs in a little sack and sugar, mix all together, and knead it as stiff as for manchet, and make it up in the form and size of ❋ Unknown (2004)

Who are to pluck the golden pippins -- who are to smack lips at the golden fish -- who are to chew the fine manchet loaves of Downing-street? ❋ Various (N/A)

He is never so well pleased with his place as when a gentleman is beholden to him for shewing him the buttery, whom he greets with a cup of single beer and sliced manchet, [34] and tells him it is the fashion of the college. ❋ John Earle (N/A)

Near Tetsworth, the enemy's first outpost, they halt till evening; the horsemen dismount, the flagon and the foraging-bag are opened, the black-jack and the manchet go round, healths are drunk to successes past and glories future, to "Queen Mary's eyes," and to "Prince Rupert's dog." ❋ Various (N/A)

Buttery, and bring into the Hall a manchet upon the point of a knife, he is pardoned: for the buttry in that case is a sanctuary. ❋ William Francis Dawson (N/A)

But at dawn they fled, and then the door of the room opened, and a damsel appeared, and in her hands was a manchet of sour bread, and a beaker of water from the ditch of the moat. ❋ Henry Gilbert (N/A)

After an [intense day] of cutting open UPS packages in the mail room, Bob used his manchete to [pry] off a [beer cap], clean his fingernails and cut open a bag of jerky. ❋ Carlos18 (2010)