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  • They gave me a sweet-bread and a cherry pudding for dinner.

    Armadale 2003

  • Chop the meat of a cold chicken and 1 parboiled sweet-bread quite fine.

    The Cookery Blue Book First Unitarian Society of San Francisco. Society for Christian Work

  • Simmer from ten to thirty minutes, according to kind of sweet-bread used.

    The Story of Crisco Marion Harris Neil

  • At this hour Jane was accustomed to be washed with tepid water, scented daintily with violet, alcohol-rubbed, talcum-powdered, and finally fresh-linened, coifed and manicured, to be supported with a heap of fresh pillows and fed creamed sweet-bread and golden-brown coffee and toast.

    Love Stories Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • = -- This plant is sometimes spoken of as the sweet-bread mushroom.

    Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886

  • Our Cumberland's sweet-bread its place shall obtain,

    English Satires Various 1885

  • The throat-brisk, and the sweet-bread pricking on.

    Third Book 1857

  • They gave me a sweet-bread and a cherry pudding for dinner.

    Armadale Wilkie Collins 1856

  • The butcher was so much in earnest with his sweet-bread of lamb, or whatever the dainty might be, that he tried every accessible door of the seven gables, and at length came round again to the shop, where he ordinarily found admittance.

    The House of the Seven Gables 1851

  • Be sure and ask for the sweet-bread; for butchers are extremely apt to reserve it for their own use; and therefore lamb-fry is almost always sold without it.

    The American Frugal Housewife Lydia Maria Francis Child 1841

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