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In these few lines are several gross errors: (1) cream-tarts should be _cheese-cakes_; (2) the charge was "that he made cheese-cakes
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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One of my cookie ladies made these darling mini cheese-cakes in pastry with cherry topping.
The Christmas Cookie Cookbook Ann Pearlman 2010
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The Cream cheese frosting is greta for cheese-cakes, cupcakes or smaller desserts, while the Royal icing is preferred for decorating cookies.
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The Cream cheese frosting is greta for cheese-cakes, cupcakes or smaller desserts, while the Royal icing is preferred for decorating cookies.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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“Hey! bourgeois, may I offer you a glass of Alicante and some cheese-cakes?” said Georges to the count.
A Start in Life 2007
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“Eight francs for Alicante and the cheese-cakes; forty sous for cigars; and his breakfast will cost him —”
A Start in Life 2007
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Oscar, anxious to play the man, swallowed the second glass of wine, and ate three more cheese-cakes.
A Start in Life 2007
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They were now entering Saint – Denis, and Pierrotin presently drew up before the door of a tavern where were sold the famous cheese-cakes of that place.
A Start in Life 2007
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Accordingly, he now posed as a great personage; paid for their cheese-cakes, and ordered for each a glass of Alicante.
A Start in Life 2007
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“I think I would have cheese-cakes,” says Charley, sighing, as his teeth closed on a large slice, “and the gentleman whom Mr. Johnson was with,” continues Charley, with his mouth quite full, “was Mr. Richardson who wrote — —”
The Virginians 2006
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