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You can make traditional Osaka-style octopus balls, as well as "castella" cakes and other good things.
J-List side blog 2009
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And after the above-said castella had been completed and the Franks had stationed scarae to live in them and guard then, the lord king Charles returned to Francia.
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And Amrus, governor of Saragossa and Huesca, seized the area in which he had held authority, posted garrisons in his castella and sent a legation to the emperor, promising that he intended to surrender himself and all that he held to him.
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Bite-sized castella cake, a not very light nor spongy sponge
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Passing through Barcelona, he advanced to Tarragona: the people he found there were taken prisoner; others were put to flight; and all the settlements, castella and townships as far as Tortosa were des-troyed by the army and consumed by the devouring flames.
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Note 24: Auctarium Mortui Maris, ed.L. Bethmann, MGH SS 6.467: Eodem tempore in regno Francorum pueri et puelle cum aliquibus adolescentulis et senibus … processiones faciebant, et per urbes, vicos et castella canentes ibant, Gallice proclamantes: Domine Deus, exalta christianitatem!
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Take castella, a much loved, adapted Portuguese cake -- soft, moist, oh-so-fwuffy, and just brimming with the taste of sugar (do not be fooled by variations in color -- there's only one flavor, sugar).
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Take castella, a much loved, adapted Portuguese cake -- soft, moist, oh-so-fwuffy, and just brimming with the taste of sugar (do not be fooled by variations in color -- there's only one flavor, sugar).
Archive 2005-09-01 2005
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Cum duo edificasset castella, ad tollendam structionis invidiam, et expiandam maculam, duo instituit caenobia, et collegis relgiosis implevit.
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As adjuncts to these channels there were cisterns (or castella, as they were called).
Satyricon 2007
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