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  • Crackers, toasted or hard bread may be added a short time before the soup is wanted; but do not put in those libels on civilized cookery, called DUMPLINGS! One might about as well eat, with the hope of digesting, a brick from the ruins of Babylon, as one of the hard, heavy masses of boiled dough which usually pass under this name.

    Sarah Josepha Hale (2012). “Early American Cookery: "The Good Housekeeper," 1841”, p.58, Courier Corporation