How to restore deleted web clip with Time Machine

I had a couple of nice web clips in my dashboard that I had to close to install new software. Now I want to restore them with time machine. How can I do that? Where are the files that contain the web clips? Which files to restore? I know it can be done because I once restored the entire system with time machine and got the web clips back as expected.

restore the files homedirectory/library/preferences/widget-com.apple.widget.web-clip.plist AND
homedirectory/library/preferences/com.apple.dock.plist and restart Dock by entering the following in terminal
killall Dock

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