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Charlotte Brontë does not give a detailed description of the seed-cake Jane and her friends have together with tea.
Seed-Cake (Novel Food, Fall ‘08 edition) « Baking History 2008
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Charlotte Brontë does not give a detailed description of the seed-cake Jane and her friends have together with tea.
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Among all of the possibilities, I chose to bake a seed-cake, like the one Jane shares one perfect evening with her beloved schoolmate Helen and their teacher Miss Temple.
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Among all of the possibilities, I chose to bake a seed-cake, like the one Jane shares one perfect evening with her beloved schoolmate Helen and their teacher Miss Temple.
Seed-Cake (Novel Food, Fall ‘08 edition) « Baking History 2008
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A seed-cake and a bottle of wine were produced in the drawing-room, as on the solemn occasions of the visits of parents, and these refreshments being partaken of, Miss Sedley was at liberty to depart.
Vanity Fair 2006
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At the backend, when the early sowing had been completed, the farmer made a sort of feast for the men, the principle feature of which was 'seed-cake', which was given to each of them.
Archive 2006-09-01 2006
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At the backend, when the early sowing had been completed, the farmer made a sort of feast for the men, the principle feature of which was 'seed-cake', which was given to each of them.
Seed Cake 2006
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“Spare her?” said Mrs. Poyser, placing a seed-cake on the table and then seating herself to pour out the tea.
Adam Bede 2004
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Sometimes my grandmother would bring me to see some old Sligo gentlewoman whose garden ran down to the river, ending there in a low wall full of wallflowers, and I would sit up upon my chair, very bored, while my elders ate their seed-cake and drank their sherry.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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Sometimes my grandmother would bring me to see some old Sligo gentlewoman whose garden ran down to the river, ending there in a low wall full of wallflowers, and I would sit up upon my chair, very bored, while my elders ate their seed-cake and drank their sherry.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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