All the soups and Kickshaws-though excellent in themselves-in the world are not, for his purpose, equal to a round of beef or a side of bacon.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
To my uncultivated mind-for I had never been at school, and lived in the open air with the birds and beasts-this seemed intolerably artificial; for I was like a hungry person who has nothing but Kickshaws put before him, and eats because he is hungry until he loathes a food which in its taste confounds the appetite.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
Her feast was better cooked, altogether more substantial and real than the Kickshaws and sweetmeats she chose to ascribe to the menus of Arcadia.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan