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Remove the pulp from the grape fruit, fill each half with the mixture and serve on doylie covered plates.
Games For All Occasions Mary E. Blain
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These tiny dishes rest upon a doylie-covered plate, and a bird or rarebit may be served in them as a course at dinner, one to each guest.
Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes Janet McKenzie Hill 1892
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When cold spread the mixture upon lady-fingers or cakelets, white or yellow, press another above the mixture, and serve upon a handsome doylie-covered plate.
Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes Janet McKenzie Hill 1892
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Serve the bands piled in log-cabin style on a doylie-covered plate.
Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes Janet McKenzie Hill 1892
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a doylie will be given you, which place upon your knee.
The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men Walter Germain
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