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rock cake

She sat sipping tea and crumbling a rock bun between her fingers.

She would be eating Marmite sandwiches and rock buns for months.

There was toast and jam and a plate of rock buns and a cutting cake.

A rock cake, also called a rock bun, is a small fruit cake with a rough surface resembling a rock.

Variations include the Jamaican rock bun, which is similar but can include grated coconut, and the traditional British rock cake, which contains oatmeal.

Some less well known meals and many miscellaneous staples are arrowroot gruel, sweetmeats, fritters and coconut concoctions; and some breads - yeast bread, rock buns, and palm wine bread to name a few.

In his new book, "Untold Stories," published here last year, he revealed that in 1997 he discovered that he had colon cancer ("about the size of the average rock bun," was the doctor's description of the tumor) and that he had recovered, despite being given only a 50 percent chance of survival.

It was far better than his solid rock cakes of a few days ago.

Cooking for Girls; a rock cake recipe written for children.

When they make rock cakes, no simile is intended.

However, everything on it has been eaten by rats, except the rock cakes, which, as they discover, are impossible to chew.

Edith, having baked some rock cakes for the airmen, walks in on him and Yvette.

"When the Good Lord calls us, we have to go," she added reverently, accepting the preferred rock cake.

Its tiny tongue rasping the parquet floor, collecting the few crumbs of rock cake that remained.

Wouldn't be surprised meself if your rock cakes hadn't driven them out into the rain.'

We had supper at eight which was usually a rock cake or a scone, or sometimes we had toast, and a cup of tea.

Rock cakes originated in Great Britain, where they are a traditional teatime treat, but are now popular in many parts of the world.

Rock cakes are mentioned as an alternative to doughnuts in the 1940 British film Night Train to Munich.

"Give the villains rock cakes served wirh spearpoints!"

A rock cake, also called a rock bun, is a small fruit cake with a rough surface resembling a rock.

"I wallop a snake wiv a old rock cake-" "Rollo!

I well remember attending an ecumenical garden party, minding my own business and trying to juggle a cup of weak tea and a sinewy rock cake.

We used to go there for tea - the uncles served copious schoolboy teas: jam puffs, doughnuts, sponge rolls, rock cakes.

In the tea-tent, his top hat is knocked off by a cleverly aimed rock cake, and Emsworth flees, taking refuge in an old shed.

Variations include the Jamaican rock bun, which is similar but can include grated coconut, and the traditional British rock cake, which contains oatmeal.

The old lady is put in a pillory and pelted with Jack's aunt's rock cakes (which she comments she had fortunately overcooked), while onlookers shout obscenities.

Actually the tea shop benefited slightly, because we'd introduced a new line of rock cakes that week, and some rioters came round to buy them to throw at middle class people.'

Chocolate chip cookies (Toll House cookies), oatmeal (or oatmeal raisin) cookies and rock cakes are popular examples of drop cookies.

Then, when the joint went in the oven for our roast dinner, she would start baking: apple pies, mince pies, sausage rolls, jam tarts, rock cakes, scones etc.

And he didn't want to condemn himself to fifty years of heavy sponges, chewy pastry and rock cakes that seemed to have come straight from the local roadstone quarries.

That is why, I suppose, so many of their treats - teacakes, scones, crumpets, rock cakes, Rich Tea biscuits, fruit Shrewsburys - are so cautiously flavourful.

He spends his morning in the Whim Cafe, whose grubby windows look onto a Trinity Street humming with bicycles, drinking gray coffee and eating rock cakes, conspicuously not going to lectures.