Plumb Cakes!!

[misstia]

From the Washington, D.C. "Daily National Intelligencer" December, 1816...

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[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Is that saying he has on hand a choice collection of sugar and also some wooden toys or does it say he has a choice collection of toys, some of which are wooden and some of which are sugar? I really hope it's sugar toys because that sounds so cool!

"a supply of fine fresh LEMONS." Ermahgerd!

[mellzie-1963.livejournal.com]

Pretty sure it means toys made of candy--shape candy "toys" made of molded barley sugar were popular in the 18th and 19th centuries. You can still get something like that (http://www.melvillecandycompany.com/Old-Tyme-Barley-Collection-24ct_p_26.html) from specialty confectioners.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

A few years ago, I bought my kids some candies that were shaped like Lego blocks. They liked them, but the novelty wore off quickly.

[write-light.livejournal.com]

Thank heavens the cakes are plumb, and not crooked.

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

You certainly couldn't have a square meal if the cakes weren't plumb!

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I'd love to have seen that. And I'd also love a lemon right now. (I'm cooking fish.)

[john-holton.livejournal.com]

Plumb is another word for lead, isn't it?

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

Yup, Latin "plumbum". We get the word plumber from it. But a plumb is a weighted tool (made of lead) to get things perpendicular to a floor or surface.