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He was "uncommonly generous with his slush, the fat that rose to the surface of his coppers with the seething meat. Apart from what was needed to grease mast and yards, the slush was the cook's perquisite; yet Orrage was of so liberal a disposition that he would often let his shipmates have a mugful to fry their crumbled biscuit in, or chance-caught fish, though tallow-chandlers would give him two pounds ten a barrel in almost any port."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 90
...all that kind of rot and slush ... HF 25