Lemon Cake rhyme (1894); Saratoga Potatoes; Parker House Rolls

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The "peanut butter" in this food article turns out to be a false hit.
Anyway, the "lemon cake rhyme" is worth posting.
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Boston. Dec  13, 1894. p. 8 (1 page)
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_Lemon Cake and Rhyme._
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Five cups of flour,
White and clean;
One cup of butter,
Nothing mean;
Six new-laid eggs,
Well buttered up;
Enough of milk
To fill one cup;
One lemon, large,
Two, if small;
Sugar, three cups,
To sweeten all;
Teaspoonful of soda, add;
Rich lemon cake
Will then be had.
Bake it in pans
To please the eye.
Round or oblong,
Should you try;
Then one thing note,
Without surprise;
The more you make,
The less the size.
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I took this from the Boston Olive Branch more than 50 years ago. It has  been
my favorite cake for a great many years.
Mrs. H. N. M.
Ashmont.
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(The poem dates to the 1840s?--ed.)
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SARATOGA POTATOES
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The digitized Atlanta Constitution is earliest on ProQuest.
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The Constitution (1875-1876). Atlanta, Ga.: Jul 8, 1876. p. 3  (1 page)
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Washington Gazette.
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Dr. Holland has taken the Washington hotel and advertise thus:
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"Holland's Washington hotel--on the tooth plan--the only plan superior to
the European plan. Beefstake (sic) with or without onions. Saratoga potatoes,
French coffee, iced tea, peanuts on toast, frogged chicken, etc., etc. Music
three times a fay! Teeth examined before each meal!
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I price my victuals to suit the times,
So when you come bring me your dimes!"
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PARKER HOUSE ROLLS
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Nothing definitive and early in the Boston Globe. The next OED revision  will
have what?
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The Atlanta Constitution (1869-1875). Atlanta, Ga.: Sep 18,  1873. p. 0_2 (1
page)
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>From the Boston Post.
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"Parker house rolls! Who is up to that, I  wonder?"