As we entered, Madame Le Rouzic herself was sitting on a long wooden bench by the window knitting, and her daughter was watching the savoury-smelling dinner as it boiled in great iron pots hanging from chains over a brilliant fire on the hearth.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
"When we come to our house-just as we begun to smell the savoury bed clear out there on the walk-we heard something ...
"Friendship Village"
Zona Gale
She se' down the kettle on the stove an' stirred up the fire under it, an' it was no time before the whole church begun to smell savoury as a kitchen.
"Friendship Village"
Zona Gale