viand

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I liked pie, but not pudding; the rich, heavy fruit-cake of weddings, good, honest gingerbread, the brisk, crispy heat of the brittle ginger-snap, but not "plain cake,"—absurd viand!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various

A large species of sea-eel, furnishing a somewhat vile viand, but eatable when strongly curried.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

As to the orphans, those young ladies sat side by side, and nudged each other when the sacrificial knife was plunged into any fresh viand, and discoursed together every now and then in rapturous whispers.

From The Doctor's Wife by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

The extraordinary taste which finds pleasure in eating this sour meat is little less remarkable than the strange way in which the viand is prepared.

From Suppers Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions by Pierce, Paul

My Lord," said I, "it is a fast; I cannot this morning do justice to this delicious viand; it is a fast; I am under a vow.

From Visits To Monasteries in the Levant by Curzon, Robert