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A British sweet made with molasses and butter and almonds
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hardbake
Word definitions for hardbake in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a British sweet made with molasses and butter and almonds
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hardbake \Hard"bake`\ (-b[=a]k`), n. A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc. --Thackeray.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses with almonds, flavoured with orange or lemon juice.
Usage examples of hardbake.
And we got hardbake and raspberry noyau and peppermint rock and oranges and a coconut, with other nice things.
I myself caught, last time he was down here, playing at marbles with three of my charity-boys in the street, and promising to treat them to hardbake and gingerbeer afterwards, is--in short, is not a man whose actions it is possible to speculate on.
It didn't look impressive, an old flask of hardbaked clay with its hollow handle bent over and returning insidemerely a Klein bottle, with Solomon's seal in red wax at the mouth.