fancy-cut

Updated: May 13, 2025

Even under those most favourable circumstances of having had the delightful gathering of the flowers in the sweet sunny fields the picking of them in the happy holiday afternoon the permission to use the best doll's tea-service for the feast the loan of a nice white table-cloth and the present of half-a-dozen pewter knives and forks to fancy-cut the biscuits with nay, even in spite of the addition of well-filled doll's sugar-pots and cream-jugs cowslip-tea always seems to want either a leetle more or a leetle less sugar or a leetle more or a leetle less cream or to be a leetle more or a leetle less strong to turn it into that complete nectar which, of course, it really IS.

Mrs. Alfred Gatty - Aunt Judy's Tales