... delicious for breakfast, and may easily be had without excessive early rising if the sponge is set in the _morning_, dough made in the afternoon, and the rising and working done in the evening; ... from the wide side, taking care that it is not squeezed together in any way; lay them on a tin with the side on which the point comes uppermost, and bend round in the form of a horseshoe; these ... preserves, and the very excellence of their attainments in that way proves how easy it would be for them, with their dainty fingers and good taste, to far excel their European cousins in that art...