Kickshaws

_To make Kickshaws, to bake or fry in what shape you please.

The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet Stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex Hannah Wolley

Masters of Cookery; he could toss up a Fricassée as well as a Pancake: And most of the Kickshaws now in vogue, are but his Inventions, with other Names; for what we call _Fricassées_, he call'd _Pancakes_; as, a Pancake of Chickens, a Pancake of Rabbets, _&c.

A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727) Henry Carey

Expert and ready Ways for the Dressing of all Sorts of FLESH, FOWL, and FISH, with variety of SAUCES proper for each of them; and how to raise all manner of _Pastes_; the best Directions for all sorts of _Kickshaws_, also the _Terms_ of _CARVING_ and _SEWING_.

The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May

Feather-beds instead of fern for your backs; and Kickshaws instead of beef for your eating; and Drains instead of Holy Wells for your drinking; -- that, therefore, you are the Cream of Creation, and every one of you a seven-headed Solomon.

The Pleasures of England Lectures given in Oxford John Ruskin 1859

'Kickshaws, and French frippery, spoiling wholesome dishes.

The Old Manor House 1793

They are used instead of Raisins and Currants, and make several pretty Kickshaws.

A New Voyage to Carolina; Containing the Exact Description and Natural History of That Country: Together with the Present State Thereof. And A Journal of a Thousand Miles, Travel'd Thro' Several Nations of Indians. Giving a Particular Account of Their Customs, Manners, &c. 1709

Out-o’the-ways, the Crickets, and the Kickshaws — Let

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004