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make a Christmas plum pudding properly
Nothing could have convinced Mrs. Rachel that a college graduate of the younger generation could make a Christmas plum pudding properly; but she bestowed approval on Anne's house.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

mace and cayenne pepper powdered parsley
Before cooking, stuff with a force-meat, composed of 2 ozs. of finely-powdered bread crumbs, half a lemon-peel chopped fine, half a teaspoonful of salt, and the same quantity of mixed mace and cayenne pepper, powdered parsley, and some sweet herbs; break an egg, and mix all well together.
— from Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs

Monarcha Artamus Campephaga Pachycephala Philemon Ptilotis
Other genera confined to or characteristic of the Australian region, are Rhipidura , Monarcha , Artamus , Campephaga , Pachycephala , Philemon , Ptilotis , and Myzomela .
— from The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 1 With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface by Alfred Russel Wallace

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