10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GIRDLECAKE»
Discover the use of
girdlecake in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
girdlecake and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The London Quarterly and Holborn Review
A sufiiciency of fat meat is found on their tables ; a girdlecake, called a “singing-
honey,” from the simmering noise it makes in baking, is found at the fireside ; and
tea or beer appears on the table. All this is applicable to the one good meal a day
...
When eaten warm, with butter, sugar, molasses, or treacle, it possesses a flavour
that cannot bo eiiuallod by auy other girdlecake whatever. The Buckwheat flour,
put up in small casks in Philadelphia, is the best that can be procured in America
...
3
Delphi Complete Works of John Buchan (Illustrated)
Of the events ofthatday's journey how shall Itell— Leyden is a day's length from
Rotterdam to the north, throughaland flat as a girdlecake. The horses were
lumbering, sleepy brutes,and the driver scarce any better,forevery nowandagain
...
4
Delphi Works of John Buchan (Illustrated)
Of the events ofthatday's journey how shall Itell— Leyden is a day's length from
Rotterdam to the north, throughaland flat as a girdlecake. The horses were
lumbering, sleepy brutes,and the driver scarce any better,forevery nowandagain
...
5
A Survey of English Spelling
... dufflecoat, gogglebox, applewood, battlefield; 2 spellings of homorganic nasal
and plosive, as in tumbledown, simpleton, candlestick, mantlepiece, anklesocks,
stranglehold; 3 <st>, as in mistletoe; 4 <rC> clusters, as in warblefly, girdlecake, ...
6
The Fragments of Attic Comedy
THE STIFF 'UNS* 31 Athenaeus Dipnosophists: oJ>8<xp 'breast or udder':
Telecleides Stiff 'uns: I've a woman's breast because that 's what I am. 32 The
Same: Telecleides speaks of the SfxuXo? or girdlecake in the Stiff 'Uns thus: Hot
buns I ...
... observed in a Scottish girdlecake, where the thickness of the tortilla, or cake,
does not exceed half an inch. When fresh, the tortilla is not bad, and I have been
able to support life on it for a long period. The majority of white men, however, ...
8
The London Quarterly Review
A sufficiency of fat meat is found on their tables ; a girdlecake, called a “singing-
honey,” from the simmering noise it makes in baking, is found at the fireside ; and
tea or beer appears on the table. All this is applicable to the one good meal a day
...
... a flat iron plate, the result being something like that observed in a Scottish
girdlecake, where the thickness of the tortilla, or cake, does not exceed half an
inch. When fresh, the tortilla is not bad, and I have been able to support life on it
for a ...
10
The Great Sahara: Wanderings South of the Atlas Mountains
P. was already up and at his coffee. I found the khalifat at my bedside, and his
negro with coffee and girdlecake. Our host pointed out water for my morning bath
in an archway off the court. Privacy was impossible; as usual, we had to strip and
...
Henry Baker Tristram, 2012
