10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLAPBREAD»
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clapbread in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Can youfancythe bustleof Alice tomake the tea, topour itout, and sweeten it to
their liking,to help andhelp again to clapbread and bread and butter? Can you
fancy the delight with which she watched her piledup clapbread disappear before
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell,
2013
... and took thence a quantity of the oat bread of the north, the 'clapbread' of
Cumberland and Westmoreland, and descending carefully with the thin cakes,
threatening to break to pieces in her hand, she placed them on the bare table,
with the ...
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A Supplement to the Glossary of the Dialect of Cumberland
Said of clapbread: to hang it up on strings to dry. Practically obs. She was but a
young lass yet, and had few opinions beyond the best way of ' flying clapbread '
— Liz. Lorton, v. 127. Fly. Handloom-weaving term : an upright frame holding the
...
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A Supplement to the Glossary of the Dialect of Cumberland
Said of clapbread: to hang it up on strings to dry. Practically obs. She was but a
young lass yet, and had few opinions beyond the best way of ' flying clapbread '
— Liz. Lorton, v. 1a7. Fly. Handloom-weaving term : an upright frame holding the
...
Edward William Prevost, Simon Dickson Brown,
1905
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Daughters of the Witching Hill
Young Annie was slapping down wet clapbread dough on the steaming-hot
stones that girded the fire. “Happy Christmas, Bess.” Anne rose to kiss me. “You'
re just in time to eat with us. When the soup's ready, we'll call Tom inside.” Doting
and ...
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Dead Man Riding: A Nell Bray Mystery
'There's nobbut tea and clapbread and butter,' she said. 'No eggs?' 'Nobbut three.
The hens are out of kelter.' 'Clapbread and butter then.' There was something
curiously intimate about the little conversation, more like two friends than ...
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Beatrix Potter: At Home in the Lake District
Until potatoes and wheat became available generally, the staple food cooked on
the open- hearth fires of the Lake District was unleavened oat cake, known as
clapbread. Clapbread is made from a mixture of fine oatmeal and water, kneaded
...
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Elizabeth Gaskell's Collection [ 59 books ]:
Canyou fancy the delight with which she watched her piledup clapbread
disappear before the hungry girls and listened to the praises of her
homeremembered dainty? My mother used to send me some clapbread byany
northcountry person ...
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The Encyclopaedic Dictionary: A New & Original Work of ...
The gage takes its set from the lower edge of the board last nailed on, and has a
stop for the lower edge of the board next above. (Knight.) clap board, clapboard,
v.t. [Clapboard, 6.} To line externally with clap-boards. • clap-broad, □ clapbread
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NAME Havercake Haverbread Riddlebread Clapbread Oatcake Havercake
Haverbread Clapbread Tharve cake Short haver Watticake Oatcake METHOD
Made by rolling out a stiff paste of oatmeal, water and salt and baking on a girdle,
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3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CLAPBREAD»
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clapbread is used in the context of the following news items.
Eight forgotten British bakes that deserve a comeback
Another Cumbrian speciality, clapcakes (also known clapbread, or havver cakes) are a kind of large oatcake, beaten or rolled very thin, that ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 14»
National Trust: Bizarre (and risky) business of keeping properties …
Sadly, nobody gets to eat Amy's clapbread (a simple oatcake), syllabubs or Cumberland rum nicky pie, filled with fruity mincemeat. 'When you ... «Daily Mail, Oct 13»
Cumbrian poet's house open for bank holiday fun
... ways, while from 11.30am to 3.30pm on Tuesday visitors can get their hands floury in the kitchen learning to make Cumbria clapbread. «News & Star, May 13»