She was learned in decocting all kinds of herb-tea, infallible in curing burns, sprains, and scalds; and not a few pennyworths of gingerbread and paradise (for the latter she was very famous) went among her young customers, for which the till was never the richer.
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1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Knife, page 127: