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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When it rains--it pours" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Salt of the Earth" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good Housekeeping" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and well, with the least expenditure of time and energy. And they have more than succeeded in proving the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and that it _does_ take will power to keep oneself from weakly saying in the face of temptation," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, well! what does it matter! My little house would perhaps be better without that, but I have grown accustomed to it, let it stay!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This little bit of the Park belongs to me! I cut that grass, I weed those flower beds in the evening when I come home from the office; and every Saturday afternoon I take the hose and thoroughly soak that bit of lawn there, you may see me at it any week in the summer." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're Not Supposed To, Jimmie" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Huh! exclaimed Jennie," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jennie'll be glad to see me, I know, she mused." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's high-headed, but she knows a good thing ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jennie is learning, thought the old lady to herself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "After I've been here a few times more, she'll get along all right." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How long does your aunt expect to stay? asked Jimmie, casually, while J...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ladies, she exclaimed, and Jimmie paused to listen," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am honored--more so than you can guess--at the distinction conferred upon me. This afternoon you have seen fit to make me one of your leaders in a most important movement for civic b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you think, Jennie, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Aunt Rachel is going to be married! Yes, she is! I've got it on the best of authority--the groom himself." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who? gasped Jennie." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Somebody's cat," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kitty--kitty--kitty. Muvver, see my 'ittle kitty?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kitty--kitty--kitty! _My_ 'ittle kitty!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, Curlylocks, said I," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We _might_ find him, they insisted. Truly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hope springs eternal." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps, he has gone back where he came from, said Daddy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps, he has grown tir...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kitty--kitty--kitty! _My_ 'ittle kitty!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I declare, said Daddy, one day," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I believe that cat goes up in the hills and hunts." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Camps out and has a good time," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And fishes, suggested Ted." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We had such a good time! We're planning to go back again next summer." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, mother, aren't you really glad you went?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes-s, said I, slowly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm glad I went. It has been a new experience. I feel like I'd gained a degree at the State University." }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's telling us all what a good time he had, said I, understanding at last," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But if we didn't go we couldn't get home again," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Each could analyze fairly accurately her expenses for the preceding six months. After study, they decided that, without increasing their combined expense, they could have comfortable quarters of their own and more than meet all thei...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Elevators have not been in style in our boarding houses, and flights of stairs have--so what matters it? The suite, when you arrived up there, was airy and comfortable. It provided two bedrooms, a cheery living room, a dining room and a kitchenette. Clarice remarked," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do Drop Inn" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "guest. The girl who brought a guest also" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "answered Anne, who had journeyed out into the suburbs to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "her engagement to Burt Winchester to the home folks before she" }, { "from": "human", "value": "it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm going to retire to t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't think we'll ever find anything better, she was saying to him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps he'd have it redecorated for us, with a long lease--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The leases are for one year, with privilege of renewal, he s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Best I could do. There's a train in twenty minutes, we'll catch it if we hurry." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Branton!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Burt, what were we thinking of? she exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This isn't the right place at all! We were to take the road up past a brick church--and there isn't any here--this is Byrnton, and we wanted Branton. What shall we do--why don't you say...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a homely, homey place, said Anne, noting everything with the eye of an artist." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't see how you could forget it, if you have an aunt living here." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's the question, answered Burt." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Burt! called Anne," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do hope she's home. What a woman she must be, I can guess some things about her, just from the outside of her house. I hope she'll show me the inside of it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She'd hav...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Those beautiful, old-fashioned flowers, no petunias but the white frilled kind,--she's an artist--and has the wash done at home, she enumerated," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's safe to say Aunt Susan's in California, said Burt, disregarding this." }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Nan, we can use anything in the kitchen or pantry, and Mrs. Brown has a blueberry pie in the oven which she'll give us, she'll bring it over when it's done.--Want to go over the house?--Give you my word it's all right, in fact Aunt Susan told Mrs. Brown she wished she could...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "His missie left him all alone, said Anne, bending to stroke the smooth head." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's upstairs, Burt?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Go and look, I'll take your place with the Admiral until you come back," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your Aunt Susan must use it for sewing, she told Burt, dreamily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "With that big skylight--it could be a studio, couldn't it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is, Burt informed her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My, I wish Susan Winchester could pop in this minute. You found the prepared flour, and all--baked 'em on the griddle! Wa'n't that cute! I never did see an omelet like that except from Susan Winchester's own hands, and she learned from a Frenchwoman she used to sew with. Some fo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We've been looking at apartments in the city, Burt went on--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you learn to keep house with your mother?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I--my aunt brought me up--and nine cousins, she answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My aunt is as unlike Burt's as you can imagine, but just as dear and good. She had a bi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On Armistice Day, November 11, at the hour when the twenty-four men representing the six participating nations first face each other across the council table, a nation-wide demonstration will be under way in the United States. Organized labor announces that in every town and cit...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The field for constructive, imaginative, and creative minds is the field of commerce." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "FEEDING-THE-FAMILY" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Feeding-the-Family Club, and, under the leadership of the head of the department of domestic science of the public schools, they meet on Wednesday evening each week for two hours to learn how to prepare healthful, nourishing meals for the average family. There are sixteen women ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How about poor us? Won't somebody write something for us? How can we, who make up most of the world, live within our incomes?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mrs. Washington, herself, made tea and coffee for us. On the table were two small plates of sliced tongue and dry toast, bread and butter, but no broiled fish, as is the general custom." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "American Notes, which followed his visit to this country, he wrote critically of the American breakfast, as follows:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And breakfast would have been no breakfast unless the principal dish were a deformed beefsteak with a great flat bone i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm not planning to have any one in for dinner, she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Brownie Book," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This Thanksgiving Brownie brings a message so gay, To visit our house on Thanksgiving Day, To help celebrate with all kinds of good cheer The 'feast of the harvest' at the end of the year." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "together and paste it on the inside of the plate. When arranged, the pictures were found to be of Thanksgiving flavor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Priscilla at the Wheel," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Pilgrims Going to Church," }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Polly had painted a huge picture of a bronze turkey, but minus the tail, and this was pinned to the wall. Real turkey feathers with pins carefully thrust through the quills were handed about, and each guest was blindfolded and turned about in turn. To the one who successfully pi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Corn Popped in a Kettle." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the sandwiches, doughnuts and popcorn made a pleasing" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Mother Goose Melodies," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Queen of Hearts she made some tarts." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Little King Boggen he built a fine hall, Pie-crust and pastry-crust that was the wall." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Five and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie, and, too, there was ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cock horse to Banbury Cross, To see what Tommy can buy: A penny white loaf, a penny white cake, And a two-penny apple pie." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The child is father of the man," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Take any flavor that happens to be on the pantry shelf, put a little in a glass, add sugar to taste, fill the glass with milk, and put in some ice. That is all there is to it. Be sure that the milk is drank very cold, when it is most palatable. Vanilla is a very good flavor." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish you would let me have a good recipe for Caramel Icing, the kind that does not call for the whites of eggs." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please let me have a recipe for Spiced Pineapple." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you kindly answer the following in your Department of Queries and Answers? Should Boiled Potatoes be started in cold or boiling water? Should Corn on the cob be put on in cold water and allowed to simmer for several minutes after it comes to a boil, or be put on in boiling ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you tell me in your paper why my Lemon Pies become watery when I return them to the oven to brown the meringue? Also give me some suggestions for Desserts for Summertime, other than frozen dishes." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you oblige me by an answer to the following in the pages of AMERICAN COOKERY? How shall I make Tartare Sauce? What should be the temperature of the fat for French Fried Potatoes or for Potato Chips? Mine are never crisp, can you tell me why? Also tell me how to Broil Fish, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can you give me a recipe for Deep-Dish Apple Pie? It has a thick top covering, I cannot call it a crust, for it is something between a cake and a biscuit dough--not at all like pie crust." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish very much to know the right temperature for Baking both layer and loaf, white, butter Cakes, also for chocolate Cake. Should the Baking begin with a cold or a warm oven? How long should each kind of cake bake?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you please give me a recipe for Canned Pimientoes?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should like a recipe for New York Ice Cream." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Holds Like Daddy's" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who, he inquired," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Eatmor" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Choisa" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Scientifically Silent" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cooking for Profit," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "THE PROFESSION OF HOME-MAKING, 100 page handbook, _free_. BULLETINS:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Free-hand Cooking," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Food Values," }, { "from": "huma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Vegetarian Nut Loaf. This may be used in place of meat and is appropriate for a simple home luncheon or dinner. See detailed recipe, page 5, of the Knox booklet," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Food Economy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dainty Desserts...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wherever a recipe calls for Gelatine--think of KNOX" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, Bobbie, I can't allow you to play with that little Kim boy. He might have a bad influence over you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, mother, can I play with him for the good influence I might have over him?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "WIN-A-SPIN" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ten-Cent Meals" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pot Liquor, that is the liquid in which turnip greens, beans, etc., with bacon, have been boiled, has now been pronounced a most valuable food by scientists." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pot Liquor is usually eaten with" }, { "from": "human", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mammy would have never known A germ. Alas! that she has died Before her nurslings' feast," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "true And constant partner, good" }, { "from": "human", "value": "; Oh, we" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--we promise you ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pot Liquor" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What are you doin' of, James?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sharpenin' a bit o' pencil." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll 'ave the Union after you, me lad. That's a carpenter's job." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cooking for Profit." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Profession of Home-Making" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "MUSTARDPOT." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Free-Hand Cooking" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Say, Einie, do you really think you understand yourself?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, Bernie--do you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, Mary, you aren't going away? she exclaimed in surprise." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pleathe, M...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Experts in Flavor" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The lovely things, what are they? Then at the first taste:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How delicious; where can I get them?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where My Money Goes" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Household Helpers" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "TWO HOUSEHOLD HELPERS" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Helpers" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Helpers" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lessons in Cooking and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Household Engineering," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Helpers." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "HOUSEHOLD HELPERS," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Art of Spending" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "our two new home-study courses," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sea Foods; How to Prepare and Serve Them." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Makes Cooking Easy" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Christmas Gift" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "PATTY IRONS" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "RAPIDE" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Americas Most Famous Dessert" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nutritión changed to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nutrition" }, { "from": "human", "value": "changed to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "London changed to" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Loudon" }, { "from": "gpt", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Auld Lang Syne" } ]