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  Vitaille Recipe Recources and Food Related Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
biscuits a La cuillere (Fr.) Ladyfingers; so named because before the invention of the pastry bag they were shaped by dropping the dough from a spoon.
charlotte russet A charlotte royale replaces the ladyfingers with spongecake cut into many thin layers sandwiched with jam; in a further
diplomat pudding (Brit.) A molded dessert of ladyfingers soaked with
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Historians seem to think that the recipe was carried throughout Europe by the marriages of the descendents of Bertha of Savoy (1051-1081) to the royalty of Europe.
18th Century - Folklore has it that Czar Peter the Great of Russia (1689-1725) and his wife, the peasant empress Catherine, so enjoyed Ladyfingers when visiting Louis XV of France (
1901 - Specialty Bakers Inc., a small bakery company on the banks of the Susquehanna River in Marysville, Pennsylvania, is known as "The Ladyfinger Specialist." Virtually all the commercially available Ladyfingers in America have been baked by Specialty Bakers since 1901.
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