Salt Cake

There he bent his head, broke a salt-cake upon the marble shelf, and laid his laurel wreath upon it. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)

Everything was in working order at last; the mules were bringing up fuel from below the timber-line, the cachitanderas (an Hispano-Quichua word meaning "salt-cake workers") were busy moulding and packing the salt for delivery to the mule and donkey trains which waited all day to take it away, and the salt was selling like hot cakes at the same price as sugar in New York. ❋ Unknown (1923)

A sacrifice of fruits was offered by the pontiffs in the presence of ten witnesses; the contracting parties were seated on the same sheepskin; they tasted a salt-cake of _far_ or rice; and this confarreation, which denoted the ancient food of Italy, served as an emblem of their mystic union of mind and body. ❋ Rossiter Johnson (1885)

In front of it was the table at which the family took their meals, and on this was placed the salt-cellar (_salinum_), and the sacred salt-cake, baked even in historical times in primitive fashion by the daughters of the family, as in all periods for the State by the Vestal virgins. ❋ W. Warde Fowler (1884)

Guy #1: wow [that woman's] [cleavage] is beautiful. Guy #2: and now she is taking her jacket off so we can see her... shoulders? Guy #1: yeah talk about [salt on the cake]. ❋ WeaponTHPS (2010)