sippet

plural sippets

1. obsoleteA small piece of something, especially a piece of toast or fried bean eaten with soup or gravy.

   Serve with small sippets of bread fried in butter.

   1859-1861, Mrs. Isabella Beeton, The Book of Household Management

   4 more examples

   The best sauce for green geese is the juice of sorrel and sugar, mixed together with a few scladed feaberries and served upon sippets

   1615, Gervase Markham, The English Huswife

   Then have sippets finely carved, and some slices of French bread in the bottom of the dish, […].

   1685, Robert May, The accomplisht cook

   Garnish your dish with sippets, lemon, and a few pickled mushrooms.

   1764, Elizabeth Moxon, English Housewifery Exemplified

   The ghost of Mr. Woodhouse himself may stare and gasp at being told that this awful preparation, this culinary corpse-reviver, apparently suited only to chalcenterous persons or those at the point of death, is a very simple mutton broth with sippets in it.

   1889 November 9, The Saturday Review, London, page 538, column 1