simnel cake

Simnel cakes have been known since at least the medieval times.

Small gifts were given, and a special dessert called a simnel cake was served.

Different towns had their own recipes and shapes of the Simnel cake.

Shrewsbury is also the origin of the most popular Simnel cake recipe.

Simnel cakes those are, stuck together: cakes for the dead.

Simnel cake has been eaten since medieval times.

And everyone says, thinking of the thrushes again, or perhaps of the little simnel cakes; 'Admirable.

There are also recipes for Simnel cake, Hot cross buns and spicy biscuits from our very own shores.

Marianne and Priscilla's daughter Sarah had made tea and brought it in with a simnel cake.

Bury simnel cake is also a variant of the cake originating in Bury.

Simnel cake is a traditional confection associated with both Mothering Sunday and Easter.

Delve into our Easter baking collection, full of recipes such as simnel cake, hot cross buns and other tasty treats.

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More familiar in this country is Simnel cake, originally given as a gift on Mothering Sunday, nut now associated with Easter.

To make a Simnel cake, place a thick layer of marzipan on top of a fruit cake, plus 11 small balls for decoration.

Children from the church school will be designing Mothering Sunday cards to bring to the church, and making a simnel cake to be shared with the congregation.

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Hot cross buns, simnel cake ... and for those of us who don't like fruit in our puddings, there are, of course, all manner of things chocolate.

Simnel Sunday is named after the practice of baking Simnel cakes to celebrate the reuniting of families during the austerity of Lent.

From a traditional Simnel cake and hot cross buns to super easy recipes for easter egg nests, BBC Food has Easter baking covered!

Easter alternative AS AN alternative to chocolate eggs, try a simnel cake, said to be an Easter favourite since the time of Edward the Confessor.

Probably an alteration of Cornish hoggan pastry, pie (18th century), perhaps cognate with Welsh chwiogen muffin, simnel cake (1562), of unknown origin."

Our elder daughter, a budding journalist, had her birthday a few days after Easter Day, so we seemed to be stuffed with Simnel cake and birthday cake and chocolate eggs.

Particular types of cake may be associated with particular festivals, such as stollen or chocolate log (at Christmas), babka and simnel cake (at Easter), or mooncake.

Easter breads such as Simnel cake, a fruit cake with eleven marzipan balls representing the eleven faithful apostles, or nut breads such as potica are traditionally served.