Snuggled inside is an egg that spurts golden yolk onto the plate as you begin to eat.
Inside it, like the golden yolk within an egg, was hidden an exquisite lute.
Cover stared down at the golden yolk and milky albumen oozing over the carefully polished leather.
A ruddy golden yolk of sun was just dropping over the hills west of the Tiber when Sabinus arrived at the palace with the other guests of honor.
Ingredients such as beans, lotus seeds, chestnut, pork fat and the golden yolk of a salted duck egg were often added to the glutinous rice.
The golden yolks trembled, ready to spill.
Some courses involved presentations of several dishes - soft-boiled eggs with buttery golden yolks, crumbed flounder filets, a pair of mantis shrimp, and rounds of cucumber with tiny, pumpkin-shaped berries.
The goose that had laid its golden yolks for one might lay them for two as well.
There were eggs, four of them, lightly fried with their perfect golden yolks staring up at me.
Anything can happen in a dream, of course - one of Widow Clay's chickens must have started laying silver eggs with golden yolks.