saveloy

plural saveloys · alternative savaloy · alternative savoloy

1. AustraliaNew ZealandUKA seasoned and smoked pork sausage, normally purchased ready-cooked.

   Savaloys, or Cervelas. [...] Fill the gut, and bake the savaloys for half an hour in a moderate oven.

   [1810], [Esther Copley], “Stuffings, Seasonings, Forcemeat, &c.”, in The Cook’s Complete Guide, on the Principles of Frugality, Comfort, and Elegance […], London: George Virtue, […], →OCLC, page 394

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   Savoloys. TAKE ſix pounds of young pork, free it from bone and ſkin, and ſalt it with one ounce of ſalt-petre, and a pound of common ſalt, for two days; [...]

   1788, [Hannah] Glasse, “Of Hogs-puddings, Sausages, &c.”, in The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy; […], new edition, London: […] J[ohn] Rivington and Sons, […], →OCLC, page 257

   When I dined regularly and handsomely, I had a saveloy and a penny-loaf, or a fourpenny plate of red beef from a cook's shop; [...]

   1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, “I Begin Life on My Own Account, and Don’t Like It”, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 115

   GEORGE PUCILL was indicted for stealing, on the 13th of April 15 savoloys, value 1s. 3d.; and ¾lb. tripe, value 2d., the goods of George Anderson, his master. George Anderson. [...] I saw some savoloys projecting from a hole in his smock-frock—I then found fifteen more round his body and over his arms— [...] Thomas Arnold (police constable H. 127) I took the prisoner, and found the tripe and savoloys—he said he was going to take them home for his supper. (The prisoner received a good character, and the prosecutor promised still to employ him.)

   1839 May 16, Henry Buckler, “London and Middlesex Cases”, in Central Criminal Court. Minutes of Evidence, Taken in Shorthand, volume XII, London: George Hebert, […], →OCLC, paragraph 1540, page 63

   "She always has a savaloy for supper, and I'm going to fetch it, and the beer." [...] [H]e walked arm-in-arm with the golden-tressed creature who now carried the savaloy for her mother in a piece of old newspaper!

   1855 May, “The Lamplighter: A Model Story for Young Authors”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume X, number LX, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, chapter II, page 818

   Saveloys! After all, there's nothing like saveloys, is there? Talk about your partridge, your venison, and your 'are, why, I've tasted saveloys as 'ud give 'em all a start if it came to a question of game.

   1882, Henry Arthur Jones, “The Silver King”, in Russell Jackson, editor, Plays by Henry Arthur Jones: The Silver King, The Case of the Rebellious Susan, The Liars (British and American Playwrights, 1750–1920), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire; New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, published 1982, →ISBN, act III, scene ii, page 70

   Synonyms: sav