Query: "marvel" as an 1880 food name?

[Douglas G. Wilson]

"Marvelle" refers to a twisted fried cake (apparently also called "lady
fingers"), with one citation in DARE, from ... you guessed it ... South
Carolina.

Here is a recipe, from _The Carolina Housewife_ (1874):

http://books.google.com/books?id=LHsO_WjgEyMC&pg=PA204&dq=marvelle+intitle:carolina-housewife&lr=&num=100&as_brr=0&sig=ACfU3U0p-cFp1OUYL0jc8PtbdVZ2nlUdfA

-- Doug Wilson

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