plumcakes

Your mother sent me last night a parcel of wax candles, and a bandbox full of small plumcakes.

The Journal to Stella 2003

Hercules, I am more hearty, bold, and stout, though I say it that should not, than if I had swallowed as many flies as are put into plumcakes and other paste at Paris from Midsummer to Christmas.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Hercules, I am more hearty, bold, and stout, though I say it that should not, than if I had swallowed as many flies as are put into plumcakes and other paste at Paris from Midsummer to Christmas.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

We will suppose it to be about midnight on the fifth of January, the day preceding the well-known revel, now come to be mainly a children's festival, which English people call Twelfth Night and celebrate by the consumption of huge plumcakes and the drawing of lots for the offices of king and queen of the revels.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Various

On Wednesday, the day before the aunts and uncles were coming, there were such various and suggestive scents, as of plumcakes in the oven and jellies in the hot state, mingled with the aroma of gravy, that it was impossible to feel altogether gloomy; there was hope in the air.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester

On Wednesday, the day before the aunts and uncles were coming, there were such various and suggestive scents, as of plumcakes in the oven and jellies in the hot state, mingled with the aroma of gravy, that it was impossible to feel altogether gloomy: there was hope in the air.

VI. The Aunts and Uncles Are Coming. Book I—Boy and Girl 1917

Page 307 of Colonel Allen memory, once more returned to his regiment, who laughs, shakes hands all around, and looks as happy as a schoolboy just come home for the holidays, who has never-ending visions of plumcakes, puddings, and other sweet things.

A Confederate girl's diary, 1913

Your mother sent me last night a parcel of wax candles, and a bandbox full of small plumcakes.

The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901

Allen memory, once more returned to his regiment, who laughs, shakes hands all around, and looks as happy as a schoolboy just come home for the holidays, who has never-ending visions of plumcakes, puddings, and other sweet things.

A Confederate Girl's Diary Sarah Morgan Dawson 1875

On Wednesday, the day before the aunts and uncles were coming, there were such various and suggestive scents, as of plumcakes in the oven and jellies in the hot state, mingled with the aroma of gravy, that it was impossible to feel altogether gloomy: there was hope in the air.

The Mill on the Floss George Eliot 1849