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Ginger
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You are small. You have red hair. You don’t realize it yet, but you are about to set out on the most alarming episode of your life so far…
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― How to Speak Dragonese
― How to Speak Dragonese
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After that, we don't talk much until she brings out a ginger cake from the larder.
"An old family recipe," she says. "I've been experimenting with the quantities of cloves and Jamaica ginger. Tell me what you think." And she pushes a slice toward me. I try not to gobble for it, for I am starving.
"The most important thing with this cake is to beat in every ingredient, one by one, with the back of a wooden spoon," she says. "Simply throwing everything in together and then beating produces a most
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― Miss Eliza's English Kitchen
― Miss Eliza's English Kitchen
