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Olla Podrida
"This word-Olla-means at once a species of prepared food, and the earthenware utensil in which it is dressed The olla is only well made in…
Omelet
It was long supposed that an omelet derived its name somehow from ovum, an egg, and might mean œufs mêlés. That etymology has been given up…
Onion
In England we give the name of onion to all the plants of the onion tribe. The leek is to us an onion, and so is garlic and the shalot. In…
Orange Sauce
for wild ducks and other such fowl. Boil half a pint of brown gravy, and add a somewhat less quantity of claret, with salt, cayenne, the…
Orgeate
as its name shows, was formerly nothing but barley water. This was flavoured sometimes with lemon, sometimes with almonds. By degrees the…
Oxford
It is not a comforting reflection that our two most ancient and renowned universities, with all their scholarship, all the wisdom of the…
Oxtail
Mr. Punch not long ago gave a revised list of the thirty-nine articles of an Englishman's faith. I have forgotten whether the first was…
Oysters
More than two hundred years ago Thomas Oysters Fuller said that the best in England were the fat, salt, green-finned sort bred near…