The cullud folks make hoe cake and ash cake and cracklin' bread and they used to sing, 'My baby love shortenin' bread.
Us taken us socks up to he house and hang dem 'round de big fireplace and den in de mornin' us find candy and cake and fruit and have de big time.
The white folks kill turkey and set table for the slaves with everything like they have, bread and biscuit and cake and po'k and baked turkey and chicken and sich.
Them was for biscuits and they was jus' like cake to the niggers in slavery time.
They allus askin' me now make hoe-cake like we et.
I was thinking of making a big cake and sticking it full of pink candles.
Giovanna cut the bread-and-butter as that genteel lady had taught her, and continued to buy the plum-cake at the same confectioner's.
After all, people who went away to America to lecture could not leave their children to break their legs by themselves for ever; and meanwhile, there was home-made cake and strawberry jam under the cedar tree.
Honey, us had meat broiled on hot rocks, roasted 'taters, ash-cake and sech.
Mammy would rake all de ashes out de fiahplace, den kivver de cake wid de hot ashes an' let it cool till it was done.
Well, she'd sho cook good cake and had plenty of 'em but she wouldn't lak to cut dem cakes often.
Bout four o'clock in de evenin' all de little niggers was called up in de big yard where de cook had put milk in a long wooden trough an' crumbled ash-cake in it.
On Sunday us had ash-cake cooked in collard leaves; an' beef was served us when de killin' time come.
On Sadday nights us would frolic an' dance all night long iffen you wanted to, buck-dance, sixteen-hand reel and cake walk.
Hit had three tiers, each one full of little cakes wid de big cake on top.
The old cake woman had resumed her nightly tour, and again we heard her rapid footsteps and her shrill refrain.
In spite of the pie, cake and other good things set out by Nell and Mrs. Merkel, Bud and his chums decided to ride back to their camp that night.
They were busy eating slices of a large chocolate cake that Nell had brought over.
A thin slice of salt pork is cut, and, running a sharp stick through it, it is held over the fire and roasted, being withdrawn occasionally to catch the drippings on a cake of pilot or ship bread.
There is in the upper side, and near the middle of Exchange street, a large cake of ice more than five feet thick.
I'll send you up some sponge cake and milk if you'll promise to go right to sleep after that," she told them, kissing each one good night all over again.
Instead, Janet uncovered a smaller box which contained a cakecarefully packed.
Oh, say, Ah'll be frostin' mah big cake in about an houah.
Jannet ran off to her room carrying a large piece of cake which Daphne had insisted on cutting for her, saying, too, that the cakewould be cut before being served anyhow.
You may be sure they had a merry time over the cake and ice cream.
You have made a mistake, brother, that very large cake is for the crippled children in St. Luke's Hospital; there are eighteen of them in the ward and we are to take it there ourselves and divide it.
Aunt Lucy and Hetty took charge of the cooking, and the birthday cake came from their hands a most beautiful, as well as delicious, confection.
Children," said Uncle Dick, "Would you like to hear the story of the first time a cake was cut on King's Day?
Ever since this happened, it is customary to have a large cake on "King's Day," January 6.
We can give a substantial lunch, with ice cream and cake for dessert, and a bag of candy to take home.
Some time when it is convenient, let us tell our boy to invite some of his friends to spend the evening, and use the best china and the preserves and cake he likes the best.
In the centre of the table the birthdaycake stood on a bank of red and white roses.
Yes, our jolly seven will be here, and Hetty says that enormous cake must be eaten at one sitting.
Calanthy's biscuits were so good everybody wanted them, and my Washington cake was praised to the skies, and I was as happy as I could be.
I felt so glad Widow Burt was like to get well, and that father had consented to let me ride with Ned Hassel, and that my cake was so handsome, and everything else so good, I didn't know how to be happy enough!
This makes an excellent sort of cake for milch cows; this, and the green dates also, are given to the donkeys, and to this food the Bahreini attribute their great superiority.
The young ladies who are clamoring for equality with men want to eat their cake and to have it too.
When at last 'Olotutu' is put upon the market it will come into the world under the fierce light that beats upon a boom, and it will be snapped up like currant cake at a tea-fight.
The cake is so light, Norah, that I'll have to tie strings to it to keep it from goin' up to the sky like a balloon!
And you said we could have ice cream and cake this afternoon," said Rose to her mother.
Norah is freezing the cream now, and she made the cake yesterday.
And when the cake had been baked in this way, and cut, each slice showed a white part, a dark brown part and a pink, jagged streak here and there, as lightning is sometimes seen to streak through the dark clouds.
Picture of a nigger biting a cake of soap on every billboard in U.
The two little vagabonds had in the mean while approached the cake simultaneously with the swans.
And, taking the cake from his son, he threw it into the basin, where it fell rather near the bank.
The cake was soaking, but they were hungry and thirsty.
The citizen, feeling that the cake ran a risk of being lost, and affected by this useless shipwreck, began a telegraphic agitation which eventually attracted the attention of the swans.
They noticed something floating on the surface, tacked, like the vessels they are, and came towards the cake slowly, with the majesty that befits white beasts.
The boy hesitated, for if he did not want any more cake that was no reason to give it away.
The boy with the bitten cakewhich he had not finished, seemed glutted; the boy was dressed in a National Guard's uniform, on account of the riots, and the father remained in civilian garb for the sake of prudence.
One of these had the name of Isis on her shoulder, and the other the name of Nephthys, and each held a vessel of water in her right hand, and a "Memphis cake of bread" in her left.
Unhooking a bucket, I tilted it over, until the ice-cake loosened, and then a spoonful of clear, thick syrup slipped over the rim into my waiting lips.
Norton will get us some oysters, and some bread and some cake at the baker's.
The spread on her bed was a snow white Marseilles quilt, Matilda knew that; and the washing closet was sumptuous in luxury, with its ample towels and its pretty cake of sweet fragrant soap.
Short-cake must be made in five minutes, or it'll be heavy; and it must bake almost as quick.
When Rose had entrusted to the oven a wedding-cake or a pan of jumbles she would repair to the piano for a ten-minute indulgence in Chopin.
Then with characteristic nonchalance he removed the wrapper from the cakeof soap, while the crowd surged and shuffled, filling the street again in its anxiety to miss nothing.
She put the last crumb of the Bartlett cake into her mouth meditatively.
If Rose baked a cake for a wedding supper, this did not militate in the least against her eligibility as a guest of the occasion.
Lois's sisters were not the first among humankind to conclude that there is a difference between Sin begging bread and Sin with cake to throw away.
Bonnock, a kind of thick cake of bread, a small jannock or loaf made of oatmeal.
Girdle, a round iron plate on which oat-cake is fired.
What did they discover on a cake of ice, floating out to sea?
The mate pointed out, with no little difficulty, the cake of ice floating off to the leeward, with its white, glittering surface broken by a black spot.
The moon is under a cloud, and I could not see distinctly; but I believe there is a child floating out to the sea, this freezing night, on that cake of ice.
The children, as we learned when we had the delight of restoring them to their parents, were playing on the cake of ice, which had jammed into a bend of the river, about ten miles above New York.
Mr. Larkin had taken the glass to look for himself, "There are two children on that cake of ice!
Do you see that cake of ice with something black upon it, my lads?
They came into view again at the back of the ice-floe, bellowing and roaring; their uncouth noises rang from floe to floe, and from every cake of ice within sight awakened monsters plunged in alarm.
The boat tied up to a largecake of ice that lay aground in the mouth of the river.
It became a dense dough-like mass; and on emptying it into the pot, instead of incorporating with the boiling water, it sank in a solid cake to the bottom.
Much of the breakfast hour was spent in cooking our food; but as a bit of oaten cake and a draught of milk usually served us for the mid-day meal, the greater part of the hour assigned to it was available for purposes of rest or amusement.
I have come to bring you a cake and a pot of butter that mother sends you.
Why, a cake and a pot of butter," answered simple Little Red Riding Hood, "because grandmother has been ill.
