marl-banks

Updated: July 10, 2026

And there was sally-lunn and Maryland biscuit; here, at last, Aunt Hannah was supreme her elbows told the story. And last of all there was a great dish of escalloped oysters cooked in fossil scallop shells thousands of years old, that Malachi had himself dug out of the marl-banks at Yorktown when he was a boy, and which had been used in the Horn family almost as many times as they were years old.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - The Fortunes of Oliver Horn