Sent Tim and Pat on with those scrags of Maitland's!
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
The butcher and the porkman painted up, only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves.
"A Tale of Two Cities A Story of the French Revolution"
Charles Dickens
The scrags may be stewed in broth; or with a small quantity of water, some small onions, a few peppercorns, and a little rice, and served together.
"The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches,"
Mary Eaton