kromesky

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1. A kind of Russian croquette wrapped in bacon before deep-frying.

   I suspect Queen Marie would not have found my school catering very regal. Our kromeskies were made from leftover minced meat, wrapped in bacon and fried in batter.

   2018, Niki Segnit, Lateral Cooking: Foreword by Yotam Ottolenghi, Bloomsbury, →ISBN

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   The Engineer Lieutenant pushed his head inside his neighbour's cabin: “Come along—come along! You'll be late for dinner. Fresh grub to-night: no more ‘Russian Kromeskis’ and ‘Fanny Adams’!”

   1916, Bartimeus [pseudonym; Sir Lewis Ritchie], Naval Occasions, and Some Traits of the Sailor-man, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons