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" Johnson's own notions about eating however were nothing less than delicate : a leg of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone, a veal pie with plums and sugar, or the outside cut of a salt buttock of beef, were his favourite dainties... "
The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ... - Page 236
1831
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Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson

Hesther Lynch Piozzi - 2000 - 270 pages
...nothing less than delicate; a leg of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone, a veal-pye with plums and sugar, or the outside cut of a salt buttock of beef,...effect he sought for, and professed to desire; and when I first knew him, he used to pour capillaire into his Port wine. For the last twelve years however,...
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