Great success attended this experiment, although, in the first instance, there had prevailed a strong inclination to deride as "stewpans" the flat-topped helmets worn by King John and his barons. ❋ Dutton Cook (1856)
Some of us can call to mind delightful old kitchens in country houses, which were a pleasure and a joy to both mistress and maids, where bright copper stewpans reflected the blazing fire on all sides, and metal covers shone like mirrors; while as for ❋ Unknown (2004)
If it is not provoking! "she continued, in a scolding tone, visiting her stewpans one after another," everything is dried up; a fillet that was as tender as it could be will be scorched! ❋ Various (N/A)
Some of us can call to mind delightful old kitchens in country houses, which were a pleasure and a joy to both mistress and maids, where bright copper stewpans reflected the blazing fire on all sides, and metal covers shone like mirrors; while as for "eating off the floor," one might certainly do it if so inclined, without the "peck of dirt" at once. ❋ Philip E. Muskett (N/A)
"As long as you deserve to be honored," I replied, with the habitual good sense of my age and sex, mentally wondering if granite-ware stewpans went with a cooking stove. ❋ Mary Belle Freeley (N/A)
Thus Sarah, who is loquacious though trustworthy, and bears an undying grudge to the postman, in that he has expressed himself less enamored of her waning charms than of those of the more buxom Jane, who queens it over the stewpans and the cold joints. ❋ Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (N/A)
Collumpsion again descended, as John had at last discovered the right chimney, and having inundated the stewpans and the kitchen, had succeeded in extinguishing the sooty cause of all these disasters. ❋ Various (N/A)
In another stewpan mix two glasses of Espagnole (No. 1) or Velute sauce (No 2) and half a glass of game gravy, boil for a few minutes then blend the contents of the two stewpans, pass through a sieve, and add the juice of a lemon. ❋ W. G. Waters (N/A)
The little father Guillotin has no butcher, but he has a purveyor; and in his brass stewpans, the verdigris of which never poisons, the dead horse is transformed into beef a-la-mode; the thighs of the dead dogs found in Rue ❋ Various (N/A)
He came to me with admirable testimonials as to his artistic excellence; with regard to his moral past I was, I fear, culpably negligent, for I now learn that all the time he presided over my stewpans he was wanted by the French police on ❋ W. G. Waters (N/A)
At first Ray's delicate fingers, accustomed to the touch of soft, sheer white stuff and ribbon and lace and silk, shrank from contact with meat grinders, and aluminum stewpans, and egg beaters, and waffle irons, and pie tins. ❋ Edna Ferber (1926)
She hastened to burrow among the pile of stewpans for the nine dollars, her week's salary, which she had hidden there. ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)
I should not be at all surprised if some day she decked her kitchen range with wreaths of roses and hung up works of art between the stewpans. ❋ Karin Micha��lis (1911)
It beat and rang on the Mongolian stewpans left out at the fireplace. ❋ Sven Anders Hedin (1908)
When she fell she grabbed hold of the shelf with all the milk pails and stewpans on it, and it gave way and went down with her and made a splendid crash. ❋ Unknown (1908)
The copper stewpans play at scattering spots of light over the smooth white walls. ❋ Maurice Maeterlinck (1905)
There was the click of the turnspits, the crash of stewpans, the noises of glass and silver preparing for the dinner. ❋ Unknown (1902)
The beautifully finished light, handy, and convenient porcelain-enamelled saucepans and stewpans and aluminium cooking pots used on modern gas stoves and ranges, would have been just as unsuitable on the open fires of the older grates as what are now regarded as the curios of the kitchen would be deemed to be in modern culinary operations. ❋ Unknown (1900)
He was employed in the kitchen, where he seems to have lightened his burdens by playing tricks on the cook and tunes on the stewpans. ❋ Lahee, Henry C (1899)
After some vigorous moments in the kitchen, evidenced by the sound of a creaking bread-board, sharp blows at the stove lids and an unabashed slamming of the stewpans, Belle passed again through the room carrying ❋ Unknown (1898)
