hardbake
Britishnoun
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Pray do not let your children waste their pennies in tarts, cakes, bull's eyes, hardbake, sour fruit, &c., they are very unwholesome, and hurt the digestion.
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It was crammed with cakes, butterscotch, hardbake, pots of jam, and even a bottle of ginger wine—enough to compromise a chameleon!
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I’m very fond of hardbake too, and I love cocoa-nut ice.”
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His moods you must assiduously watch: When he succumbs to sorrow tragic, Some hardbake or a bit of butter-scotch Will work on him like magic.
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And we got hardbake and raspberry noyau and peppermint rock and oranges and a coconut, with other nice things.
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