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Cowan Bridge (the clap-bread of Westmorland) as being different to the leaven-raised oat-cake of Yorkshire, and of her childish distaste for it.
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Bridge (the clap-bread of Westmorland) as being different to the leaven - raised oat-cake of Yorkshire, and of her childish distaste for it.
Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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The great rack of clap-bread hung overhead, and Bell Robson's preference of this kind of oat-cake over the leavened and partly sour kind used in Yorkshire was another source of her unpopularity.
Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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'I'll make some clap-bread: that's a heavy job, and will while away
Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 2 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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The great rack of clap-bread hung overhead, and Bell Robson's preference of this kind of oat-cake over the leavened and partly sour kind used in Yorkshire was another source of her unpopularity.
Sylvia's Lovers — Complete Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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'I'll make some clap-bread: that's a heavy job, and will while away
Sylvia's Lovers — Complete Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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_Deig_), in order to make the oaten-bread commonly used in these parts, at times, also, barley-bread; for _clap-bread_ (Dan.,
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 435 Volume 17, New Series, May 1, 1852 Various 1836
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