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Macaroon

A small cake, composed chiefly of the white of eggs, almonds, and sugar.

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Biscuit 76% connected

A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit.

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Cookie 76% connected

See Cooky.

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Cooky 76% connected

A small, flat, sweetened cake of various kinds.

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Ratafia 76% connected

A spirituous liquor flavored with the kernels of cherries, apricots, peaches, or other fruit, spiced, and sweetened with sugar; -- a term applied to…

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Amygdalate noun · 78% connection

An emulsion made of almonds; milk of almonds.

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Amygdalin noun · 78% connection

A glucoside extracted from bitter almonds as a white, crystalline substance.

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Beat verb · 78% connection

To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to…

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Biscotin noun · 78% connection

A confection made of flour, sugar, marmalade, and eggs; a sweet biscuit.

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Blanch adjective · 78% connection

To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds.

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Bunn noun · 78% connection

A slightly sweetened raised cake or bisquit with a glazing of sugar and milk on the top crust.

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Cake noun · 78% connection

A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of…

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Caudle noun · 78% connection

A kind of warm drink for sick persons, being a mixture of wine with eggs, bread, sugar, and spices.

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Chocolate noun · 78% connection

A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinna…

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Creamcake noun · 78% connection

A kind of cake filled with custard made of cream, eggs, etc.

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Dextrose noun · 78% connection

A sirupy, or white crystalline, variety of sugar, C6H12O6 (so called from turning the plane of polarization to the right), occurring i…

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Eggery noun · 78% connection

A place where eggs are deposited (as by sea birds) or kept; a nest of eggs.

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Egghot noun · 78% connection

A kind of posset made of eggs, brandy, sugar, and ale.

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Emulsin noun · 78% connection

The white milky pulp or extract of bitter almonds.

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Frosting noun · 78% connection

A composition of sugar and beaten egg, used to cover or ornament cake, pudding, etc.

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Galactose noun · 78% connection

A white, crystalline sugar, C6H12O6, isomeric with dextrose, obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar, and also from certain gums.…

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Glucose noun · 78% connection

A variety of sugar occurring in nature very abundantly, as in ripe grapes, and in honey, and produced in great quantities from starch,…

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Griddlecake noun · 78% connection

A cake baked or fried on a griddle, esp. a thin batter cake, as of buckwheat or common flour.

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