"queen cake" meaning in English

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          "text": "1725, Robert Smith, Court Cookery, Queen's cakes, p188 - \"Take a Pound of dry'd Flower, a Pound of refined Sugar sifted, and a Pound of Currans washed, picked, and rubbed clean, and a Pound of Butter washed very well, and rub it into the Flower and Sugar, with a little beaten Mace, and a little Orange-Flower Water; beat ten Eggs, but half the Whites, work it all well together with your Hands, and put in the Currants; sift over it double-refined Sugar, and put them immediately into a gentle Oven to bake.\""
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          "ref": "1796, Maria Edgeworth, “Waste Not, Want Not”, in The Parent's Assistant",
          "text": "\"This bun tastes so bad after the queen cakes, I can't bear it!\"",
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          "ref": "1837, Frances Harriet Green, The Housekeeper's Book, page 131",
          "text": "QUEEN CAKE. Beat one pound of butter to cream, with some rose-water, one pound of flour dried, one pound of sifted sugar, twelve eggs, beat all well together; add a few currants washed and dried; butter small pans of a size for the purpose, grate sugar over them; they are soon baked.",
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          "ref": "c. 1885, Louisa May Alcott, The Candy Country",
          "text": "\"We cook for all the confectioners.\" . . . Lily was so surprised she sat down on a warm queen’s cake that happened to be near.",
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          "ref": "1914, Angela Brazil, The Girls of St. Cyprian's, (Google online books)",
          "text": "\"I'm sure my brains work better when they're lubricated with tea,\" declared Bess Harrison, tilting back her chair at a comfortable though rather dangerous angle, and accepting the queen-cake which Lottie Lowman offered her."
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          "ref": "2011, Ann Treistman, Who Put the Devil in Deviled Eggs?, page 27",
          "text": "CUPCAKE. It's thought these diminutive cakes were inspired from the British Queen cake. This early cake was similar to the pound cake and was served individually.",
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        "A soft, muffin-sized cake, popular particularly in the 1700s, containing currants, mace and sometimes flavoured with orange or lemon marmalade or shredded coconut and chocolate toppings."
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        "(cooking, dated) A soft, muffin-sized cake, popular particularly in the 1700s, containing currants, mace and sometimes flavoured with orange or lemon marmalade or shredded coconut and chocolate toppings."
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          "word": "queencake"
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          "text": "1725, Robert Smith, Court Cookery, Queen's cakes, p188 - \"Take a Pound of dry'd Flower, a Pound of refined Sugar sifted, and a Pound of Currans washed, picked, and rubbed clean, and a Pound of Butter washed very well, and rub it into the Flower and Sugar, with a little beaten Mace, and a little Orange-Flower Water; beat ten Eggs, but half the Whites, work it all well together with your Hands, and put in the Currants; sift over it double-refined Sugar, and put them immediately into a gentle Oven to bake.\""
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          "text": "QUEEN CAKE. Beat one pound of butter to cream, with some rose-water, one pound of flour dried, one pound of sifted sugar, twelve eggs, beat all well together; add a few currants washed and dried; butter small pans of a size for the purpose, grate sugar over them; they are soon baked.",
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          "ref": "1914, Angela Brazil, The Girls of St. Cyprian's, (Google online books)",
          "text": "\"I'm sure my brains work better when they're lubricated with tea,\" declared Bess Harrison, tilting back her chair at a comfortable though rather dangerous angle, and accepting the queen-cake which Lottie Lowman offered her."
        },
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          "ref": "2011, Ann Treistman, Who Put the Devil in Deviled Eggs?, page 27",
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