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This may be made of jelly-cake dough, and, after baking, allowed to cool before spreading with the preserve; either way is good, as well as fanciful.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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Bake in jelly-cake tins, two white layers, reserving enough to make one layer colored with a little of Price's coloring, which will make one pink layer.
The Cookery Blue Book First Unitarian Society of San Francisco. Society for Christian Work
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To be baked in jelly-cake tins in layers, with filling put between when done.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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Bake in jelly-cake tins and lay first the white, then the dark, then the pink one on top of the others; put together with frosting between.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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She is thoroughly _en rapport_ with her readers, gives them now a sugar plum of poesy, now a dainty jelly-cake of imagination, and cunningly intermixes all the solid bread of thought that the child's mind can digest and assimilate.
Famous Islands and Memorable Voyages Anonymous
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When dry roll up like jelly-cake, or cut into squares and put away the same as any other dried fruit or vegetable.
From Captivity to Fame or The Life of George Washington Carver Raleigh Howard Merritt 1929
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The Toast was old-fashioned jelly-cake, with Robinsong wine.
The Garden of the Plynck Karle Wilson Baker 1919
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A roast of "spare ribs," already cooked, was left one day mysteriously on his door-step; the next day a jar of pincherry jelly and a roll of jelly-cake were there.
The Second Chance 1910
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A roast of "spare ribs," already cooked, was left one day mysteriously on his door-step; the next day a jar of pincherry jelly and a roll of jelly-cake were there.
The Second Chance Nellie L. McClung 1912
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Behind Miss Briscoe came Mildy Upton with glasses and a fat, shaking, four-storied jelly-cake on a second tray.
The Gentleman from Indiana Booth Tarkington 1907
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