There are quartets of marzipan, sugar plums and gingerbread men; Princess Tea Flower (Stella Abrera), Prince Coffee (Mr.
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With all these candy canes and sugar plums floating around, who doesn't have a sweet tooth around the holidays?
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And while visions of sugar plums are dancing in our heads, so are flashes of flight delays and long hours on the tarmac.
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Against all these sugar plums for industry, S.22019 includes only minor benefits for consumers, such as one free freezing and unfreezing of their credit per year.
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The imagined implications of Justice Anthony Kennedy's resignation for the future of legal abortion have brought visions of long-awaited sugar plums to anti-abortion politicians and activists.
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Whether you're hoping visions of sugar plums will dance in your head or you're just trying to get everything crossed off your to-do list before your relatives arrive, SHEEX's line of Performance Sheet Sets can help you get a little cozier and stay a lot cooler while you slumber.
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A review of the wines made by New Jersey's 46 wineries found no other establishment using sugar plums. Heritage is best known for its signature Bordeaux-style wine.Blanz, Sharla.
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The sorbitol content of dietary fiber likely provides the laxative effect associated with consuming prunes. Contrary to the name, boiled plums or prunes are not used to make sugar plums.
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Russian prunes in chocolate with an almond in the middle Prunes are used in preparing both sweet and savory dishes. Contrary to the name, boiled plums or prunes are not used to make sugar plums, which instead may be nuts, seeds, or spices coated with hard sugar, also called comfits.
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Homer asks Marge what Maggie thinks about while bathing, which she responds, "Just sugar plums and buttercups." Maggie then shadily moves her eyes (revealing eyeliner over one eye), puts on a hat, and drinks milk like Alex from A Clockwork Orange as the theme from the movie briefly plays in the background.
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"Plum" in the name of this confection does not always mean plum in the sense of the fruit of the same name, but commonly refers to small size and spherical or oval shape. Traditional sugar plums often contained no fruit, but were instead hardened sugar balls. These hardened sugar balls were comfits, and often surrounded a seed, nut, or spice.
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Also in 1964, he guest- starred as a government agent in the pilot episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea entitled "Eleven Days to Zero". Albert was cast as Charlie O'Rourke in the 1964 episode "Visions of Sugar Plums" of the NBC education drama series, Mr. Novak, starring James Franciscus. Bobby Diamond, formerly of the Fury series, also appeared in this episode.
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Fruit makes up a major portion of the agile mangabey diet. They are known to eat at least 42 different species of fruit. Their tooth structure and powerful jaws allows them to open tough pods and fruits that many other monkeys can not access. Agile mangabeys eat from a number of dominant swamp-forest trees, including dika nuts and sugar plums, when they are fruiting.
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Whitman's produced the first pre- packaged candy in 1854—a box of sugar plums adorned with curlicues and rosebuds. Whitman began advertising in newspapers shortly before the beginning of the Civil War and the business grew so large that in 1866 the company occupied an entire building at 12th and Market Streets in Philadelphia. In 1877, he introduced Instantaneous Chocolates in tin boxes that became much- admired. Whitman's would later be known as Stephen F. Whitman & Son, Inc.
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Visions of Sugar Plums is a 2003 novella by Janet Evanovich. It is the first of (to date) four "Between the Numbers" volumes in Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series, featuring the adventures of the eponymous bounty hunter in Trenton, New Jersey. Unlike the primary novels of the series, its title is based on a holiday rather than a number. It is followed by the novellas Plum Lovin' and Plum Lucky, and the full-length novel Plum Spooky.
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A cookbook from 1609, Delights for Ladies, describes boiling fruits with sugar as “the most kindly way to preserve plums.” The term sugar plum was applied to a wide variety of candied fruits, nuts, and roots by the 16th century. The term sugar plum came into general usage in the 17th century. During that time, adding layers of sweet which give sugar plums and comfits their hard shell was done through a slow and labor-intensive process called panning.
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Some accounts for this fair in the early 18th century do survive and show that there was a cheese fair as well the usual mix of travelling and local people with stalls and stands – people selling lace, gloves, books, gingerbread, bodices, sugar plums, toys, soap and knives, to name but a few. By the late 19th century, this fair was said to be mainly for horses, sheep and, occasionally, hops. Alton still has an annual fair, but it now takes the form of a carnival.
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The London Times reported that the Sioux were greatly frightened by its horror. In the premier theater of London, Red Shirt, considered the "Chief of the Show Natives by the press, was seated in the royal box suggesting an aura of nobility for the cowboys and Natives in attendance. Irving used the occasion to his own advantage, inviting the performers onstage after the show. Irving remarked to the theatrical paper Era that it was novel to "see Native chiefs in the full panoply of war–paint, holding the scalp–fringed banner in one hand and eating sugar plums with the other.
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She was one of the first British women artists to work regularly in the magazine market, where she was paid on the order of £2–7 per illustration. As early as 1859, the Illustrated Times featured her painting The Standard-Bearer on its cover. Claxton also authored two illustrated books, A Shillingsworth of Sugar-Plums (1867; puzzlingly advertised as containing "several hundreds of Num-nums and Nicy-nicies") and Brainy Odds and Ends (1904; a compendium of mottoes and the like). Claxton's work is in the collection of the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and other arts institutions.
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