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"Cake" Quotes from Famous Books

... out from my carriage in the doorway of what I regarded as a very delightful small house, redolent of strange and exciting odours, some of which I connect with the subsequent gift of a slab of stuff that I ate with gusto as cake. My mature view is that it was cold bread-pudding of a peculiarly villainous clamminess. It is interesting to note that my delight in this fearsome dainty was based upon its most malevolent quality: the chill consistency of the stuff, which made it resemble the kind of leathery jelly ...

— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson

... the long table laid out again, with a regular sit-down meal; cream cheese, and cake, and blackberries, and a big plate of honey; some curious kind of smoked meat cut very thin, and the potatoes which ...

— Lady Betty Across the Water • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

... fires, however, had not as yet burst their bounds and flooded the exterior cake of Mother Earth with hot and ...

— A Journey to the Centre of the Earth • Jules Verne

... Willowby's young folks were there, and having a good time. When the sun sank behind the hills on the other side of the valley, and the cool air came from the eastern mountains, Chinese lanterns were hung on the trees, and chairs and tables were placed on the lawn. There were cake and ice-cream and peaches—peaches of all kinds, large and small, white and yellow, juicy and dry; for this was a peach party, and everybody was supposed to eat, at least, half ...

— Added Upon - A Story • Nephi Anderson

... the pies and heavy puddings of which many people are so fond. Many ladies will not undertake the making of a dish that requires hours for cooking, and often for the poor reason only that they do not so read a recipe as to see that the work will not be hard. If they would but forget cake and pastry long enough to learn something of ...

— Miss Parloa's New Cook Book • Maria Parloa

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