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- noun A simple
American baked pudding made with layers of sweetened and spiced fruit (usually apple) and butteredbreadcrumbs .
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NATALIE: Is it a coincidence that "Brown Betty," last season's musical episode, was Episode 219, one of the most experimental in Fringe's history, and this Friday's episode, No. 319, is titled "Lysergic Acid Diethylamide," aka the full name of LSD?
Mega Buzz: House's Huddy, Klaus' Arrival on Vampire Diaries and a Castle Death 2011
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Ones made with ginger ale and Coca-Cola are still in the freezer, hoping for a good afterlife in a Brown Betty or banana ginger pudding.
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A few jolts of piping hot water are swished around inside the Brown Betty, for instance, to warm up the insides a tad.
Tea…how to make a great cup! Empress Hotel in Victoria has a tradition… « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture 2008
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These are the best I have had so far and I tried many from NYC - you can see the Brown Betty website and you must make the trip to Philadelphia.
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At six years of age, he ran a race, carrying 9 stone 2lbs. against Almanzor and Brown Betty, over the round course at Newmarket, three miles six furlongs, and ninety-three yards, in six minutes and forty seconds! to perform which, he must have moved eighty-two feet and a half in a second of time, or at the rate of nearly one mile in a minute.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 550, June 2, 1832 Various
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-- A baked pudding that always meets with favor among both old and young is Brown Betty.
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"It's one on 'im," Tate confided, as Brown Betty and the sled dashed by.
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"Thank you, but we haven't any ills!" cried "Brown Betty," as her friends were beginning to call her, for certainly she was tanned most becomingly.
The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem Laura Lee Hope
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"Do you know," he said, as they started, "Brown Betty looks as played out as if she had been druv instead of loafing in the stable."
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Brown Betty intelligently slackened her speed and felt her way gingerly through the darkness.
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