sippet

noun

1. (obsolete)A small piece of something, especially a piece of toast or fried bean eaten with soup or gravy.

   “The best sauce for green geese is the juice of sorrel and sugar, mixed together with a few scladed feaberries and served upon sippets”

   “Then have sippets finely carved, and some slices of French bread in the bottom of the dish, […].”

   “Garnish your dish with sippets, lemon, and a few pickled mushrooms.”

   “Serve with small sippets of bread fried in butter.”

   “The ghost of Mr. Woodhouse himself may stare and gasp at being told that this awful preparation, this culinary corpse-reviver, apparently suited only to chalcenterous persons or those at the point of death, is a very simple mutton broth with sippets in it.”