A light and sweet sponge cake roughly shaped like a human finger.
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Examples for "ladyfinger "
Examples for "ladyfinger "
1 Especially the ones I didn't like, like tomatoes, brinjal and ladyfinger .
2 The bricks were five-hundred-count packages of ladyfinger firecrackers, fitted with a forty-five-second delay fuse.
3 Remove from the oven and take from the paper by slipping a sharp knife under each ladyfinger .
5 The slope, more cliff than hill, was composed of peculiar, peaked formations that resembled upright ladyfinger cookies of differing heights.
1 Dip a savoiardi biscuit in the stout and coffee mixture for about 4 seconds per side - you don't want the biscuit to become soggy.
1 Cocoa, coffee, cream, sponge fingers , mascarpone cheese, eggs, sugar, and rum.
2 To assemble the trifle, line the base of a serving bowl with sponge fingers .
3 Twelve sponge fingers , 4 oz.
4 One dozen sponge fingers , one dozen macaroons, one dozen cocoanut cakes, one quart of custard, two cupfuls of freshly-grated cocoanut.
5 This is why sponge fingers , langues de chat and biscotti are long and thin: so they could fit into narrow glasses.
1 Now that you have fitted it for a lady 's finger it should go to your wife.
2 And he was as jocund a bridegroom as ever put a ring upon a lady 's finger .
3 A pebble that paves the street is in itself more useful than the diamond upon a lady 's finger . '
4 They chose out for luck also the smooth little rose-tinted valves, more exquisite than the fairest lady 's finger - nails .
5 The " lady 's finger " in Fenton's cheek stood out white amid the sudden red, and his eyes flashed.
6 Next morning (July 9) each man had coffee, one lady 's finger of bread, and a single small slice of bacon.
7 The slight repulse of a lady 's finger - atouchthat would not crush a gnat-willsometimes kill a strong man like a sword-stroke.
8 His brow is lofty, and pale, and stern, but partially covered with long dark hair, with which lady 's finger had never toyed.
9 'And now, most excellent Sir,' said he, turning toward me, 'what do you find worthy your own or your lady 's finger ?
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