This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
These are slices of various sorts of cake dried in the oven something like dry toast
The coffee cakes previously described, if baked in loaves and sliced when stale make the best of rusks and for this reason perhaps, have gained the name of rusks when hot and in fancy shapes. But the name is not correct. They are then cake3 or buns. The following are special sorts:
 
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