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  • Donny produced griddle-cakes (apologising all the while for the lack of some spice or other that his mother used and which, he claimed, defined the dish) until we were groaning, and we then merrily abandoned the mess in favour of reading in the lawn-chairs.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • Donny produced griddle-cakes (apologising all the while for the lack of some spice or other that his mother used and which, he claimed, defined the dish) until we were groaning, and we then merrily abandoned the mess in favour of reading in the lawn-chairs.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • So Robin made unleavened griddle-cakes, two each, and generously loaded them with honey.

    The Robin And The Kestrel Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • McGregor, "he called," bring on those griddle-cakes; I smell 'em cooking.

    Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes Maud Wilder Goodwin

  • His mother saw him from her window, and she too knew what was the trouble with her boy; but she only dropped a few tears among the potato-parings, and resolved to make griddle-cakes for supper, -- as though Leonard were still a child whose heart could be cheered through his stomach.

    Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes Maud Wilder Goodwin

  • _Tortillas_, Indian griddle-cakes, with black beans (_frijoles_) and red peppers (_chilie_), are his daily food; and his lodgings are a palm-leaf mat upon a stone or earthen floor, while his _serapa_ does duty for a blanket at night.

    Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited Robert A. Wilson

  • Drop a tablespoonful spread out thin on the griddle, and fry as you would griddle-cakes.

    Things Mother Used to Make Lydia Maria Gurney

  • Here are we forever supplied with pork and oysters and sweet-potatoes and rice and hominy and corn-bread and milk; also mysterious griddle-cakes of corn and pumpkin; also preserves made of pumpkin-chips, and other fanciful productions of Ethiop art.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

  • And griddle-cakes! and eggs, and scallops, and fried potatoes, too!

    The Governess Julie Mathilde Lippmann

  • It may too, be used for thickening soups or sauces, or may be added in small quantities to breakfast muffins and griddle-cakes.

    The Suffrage Cook Book L. O. Kleber

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