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  • I think now of the batter-cakes, the light rolls, the syllabub, the sally-lunn, the ship-ships and the wafers grandma made.

    Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp

  • I'll have to hurry on over and knock up a extra sally-lunn for him, I reckon.

    Rose of Old Harpeth Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

  • But the other evening Mrs. Cobb sent over a plate of golden sally-lunn on a silver waiter, covered with a snow-white napkin; and acting on this provocation, I thought they could be trusted with a basket of cherries.

    A Kentucky Cardinal James Lane Allen 1887

  • "Would Miss Muffet undertake to show a few girls how to make bread and rolls and biscuit and sally-lunn, and have patience with them till they were perfect little housekeepers, so far as bread was concerned."

    Holiday Stories for Young People Various 1875

  • After which we were summoned to tea, and I was consoled for this base ingratitude by plum jam and "sally-lunn" and sultana cake and other delicacies, which only a schoolboy, well on in the term, knows how fully to appreciate.

    Tom, Dick and Harry Talbot Baines Reed 1872

  • Some sally-lunn, perhaps? "and then more laughter.

    The Christian A Story Hall Caine 1892

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