buckwheat cake
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Seven Autopsies on a Battlefield of Mangled Reputations On his first encounter with the buckwheat cake Arnold Bennett is supposed to have remarked: "I say, it isn't half so rotten as it looks!"
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The President reciprocated with the tender of a buckwheat cake.
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Norine opened her black eyes, and held the portion of buckwheat cake on her fork, suspended in space.
From Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir by Fleming, May Agnes
When the skillet seethes, and a blubbering hot Tilts the lid of the coffee-pot, And the scent of the buckwheat cake grows plain— O then is the time for a brave refrain!
From Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) by Nye, Bill
Yet how much that is not obvious to the careless ear can be put into "Will you have a buckwheat cake, Mr. Kendall?" or "May I give you a helping of the syrup, Miss Brown?"
From Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters by Phillips, Henry Wallace