pound cake

The Stollen was paraded through the city of Dresden, and later an appointed “Stollen girl” cut the cake.

Now, it is the most traditional and celebrated Christmas cake in Germany—and definitely not associated with fasting.

He had a special knife designed to cut the dense loaf, and a ceremony to precede cutting the cake.

The tasteless bread was transformed into a sweet cake that included ingredients, such as dried fruit and marzipan.

At this period it brought enormous prices, the finest selling at from fifteen to eighteen shillings per pound.

They would feed him apples, potatoes and sometimes bits of cake that Bob's mother gave them.

Body o' me, here's the remainder of seven pound since yesterday was seven-night!

The duty on importation had been only twopence per pound, a moderate sum in view of the prices realized by the sale of it.

In fact, I'm nothing but a quarter of a pound of 'plain,' and the price isn't worth mentioning.