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Show Genesis of Sally Lunn. How many of our readers know the excellencies of a Sally Lunn? The world whirls around so fast that It Is possible not one In a hundred could tell what a Sally Lunn Is! The genesis of this toothsome delicacy Is to be found In Edinburgh society a hundred years ago. It was before railways had made London the capital of Britain In the days when Scots peers and gentlemen gen-tlemen had their town houses In Edinburgh Edin-burgh and when Edinburgh could offer society second to none in distinction and chic. It was when the new regiment regi-ment of Fenclbles, raised by Lord Broadalbano at the end of the eighteenth eigh-teenth century. was turning the heads of Edinburgh belles that the custom of giving tea parties became the fashion. Prince Leopold, widower of Princess Charlotte of Wales, loitered In Edinburgh Edin-burgh on his way south from a visit to Taymouth castle, and many of the principal hostesses of the city fought for tho honor of entertaining him to tea. Miss Sarah Lowndes, "a lady of the first fashion," then Invented the cake- called afterward by ncr name, "Sally Lowndes," a name which slipped easily into the "Sally Lunn" known to this day to north country pastry cooks. Soon afterward Miss Sally married and a daughter of hers became the wife of MaJ. Dallas-Yorke of "Walmsgate, Yorkshire, the mother of tho present. Duchess of Portland. We have never Inquired If the ducal tea tables at Wel-beck Wel-beck or at Grosvenor Square are furnished fur-nished with the excellent and fluffy dainty so nearly linked with the ancestress an-cestress of her grace. London Modern Society. |