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The 'soup' also provided, called 'Balanda', consisted of bone, buck-wheat, turnip and uncleaned, usually rotten potatoes.
The Russians 2010
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Chemical analyses, A: First, second, and third chemical reports and chemical analyses of the hemp and buck-wheat plants, by Robert Peter
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Clock Ticks Down on a Deadly Chemical Stockpile 2009
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Grains—try some new ones: brown basmati rice, amaranth, quinoa, kasha buck-wheat
OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005
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It was in the evening that Hans arrived there, so he did nothing more that day than eat his supper — a big pot of buck-wheat porridge, which he cleaned to the bottom and was then so far satisfied that he said he could sleep on that, so he went off to bed.
The Pink Fairy Book 2003
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"There's a boy just passing that opening yonder, and coming this way," he remarked; "and strikes me he doesn't look like a regular buck-wheat farmer's boy."
Fred Fenton on the Track or, The Athletes of Riverport School Allen Chapman
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The bread is made of wheat meal, but in some cottages consisted of thin cakes without leven, and made of buck-wheat.
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 Lt-Col. Pinkney
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Heaths, or places abounding in wild flowers, constitute the best neighbourhood for an apiary, and in default of this pasturage, there should be gardens where flowers are cultivated, and fields in which buck-wheat, clover, or sainfoin, is sown.
A Description of the Bar-and-Frame-Hive With an Abstract of Wildman's Complete Guide for the Management of Bees Throughout the Year William Augustus Munn
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The only things obtainable were black bread, soup made from cabbage, groats, a sort of buck-wheat porridge cooked in oil, and small beer or tea.
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They ought not to be fed with stale or bad corn, but of the best, and now and then with a little buck-wheat; with cabbage, mangold-wurzel leaves, and parsley, which should be chopped fine.
The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering William Martin
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'Ice-cream soda and buck-wheat cakes, and a happy evening at lovely Luna Park.'
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