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Show GENESIS OF SALLY LUNN. Tills Was a Toothsome Delicacy Popular a Century or More Ago, H How many of our readers know the excellences of a Sally Lunn? The jH world whirls round so fast that It Is possible not one In n hundred could tell what a Sally Lunn Is, says London Modern Society. The genesis of this toothsome delicacy Is to be found In Edinburgh society a hundred years ago. It was before railways had made London tho cnpltnl of Britain In tho days when Scotch peers nnd gentlemen hnd their town houses In Edinburgh and whon Edinburgh could offer sod-ety sod-ety second to none In distinction and It was when tho now regiment of Fenclbles, rnlscd by Lord Breadalbano at the end of the eighteenth century, was turning the heads of Edinburgh belles that the custom of giving tea partlos becamo the fashion. Prince Leopold, widower of Princess Char-lotto Char-lotto of Wales, loitered In Edinburgh on his wny south from a visit to Tay-mouth Tay-mouth castle, and many of tho princl-pal princl-pal hostesses of the city fought for the honor of entertaining him to tea. Miss Sarah Lowndes, "a lady of the first fashion," then invented tho cake called afterward by her name, "Sally Lowndes," a name which slipped easily into the "Sally Lunn" known to this day to north country pnstry cooks. Soon afterward Miss Sally married and a daughter of hers became tho wlfo of MnJ. Dallas-Yorkoof Walmsgate, York- 'M shire, the mother of the present duch- 'il ess of Portland. We have never In-quired In-quired It the ducal tea tables at Wei-beck Wei-beck or at Grosvenor square are fur-nlshod fur-nlshod with the excellent and fluffy BH dainty bo nearly linked with tho an- Wfl cestross of her grace. . WJ |