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Simnel cake, the Glossary

Simnel cake is a fruitcake associated with Lent and Easter and widely eaten in England, Ireland and countries with patterns of migration from them.^[1]

35 relations: Almond paste, Apostles in the New Testament, Bury, Greater Manchester, Butter, Chambers Book of Days, Dessert, Dried fruit, Easter, Eggs as food, England, Flour, Fruitcake, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Ireland, John of Garland, Judas Iscariot, Laetare Sunday, Lent, List of almond dishes, List of foods with religious symbolism, Marzipan, Mazurek (cake), Middle Ages, Mothering Sunday, Placenta cake, Refreshment Sunday, Ronald Hutton, Semolina, Shrewsbury, Spice, Sugar, United Kingdom, Worcestershire, Zest (ingredient).
British cakes
Easter cakes
English traditions
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Marzipan

Almond paste

Almond paste is made from ground almonds or almond meal and sugar in equal quantities, with small amounts of cooking oil, beaten eggs, heavy cream or corn syrup added as a binder.

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In Christian theology and ecclesiology, the apostles, particularly the Twelve Apostles (also known as the Twelve Disciples or simply the Twelve), were the primary disciples of Jesus according to the New Testament.

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Bury, Greater Manchester

Bury is a market town on the River Irwell in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England.

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Butter

Butter is a dairy product made from the fat and protein components of churned cream.

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Chambers Book of Days

Chambers Book of Days (The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, Including Anecdote, Biography, & History, Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character) was written by the Scottish author Robert Chambers and first published in 1864.

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Dessert

Dessert is a course that concludes a meal.

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Dried fruit

Dried fruit is fruit from which the majority of the original water content has been removed either naturally, through sun drying, or through the use of specialized dryers or dehydrators.

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Easter

Easter, also called Pascha (Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary.

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Eggs as food

Humans and their hominid relatives have consumed eggs for millions of years.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Flour

Flour is a powder made by grinding raw grains, roots, beans, nuts, or seeds.

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Fruitcake

Fruitcake or fruit cake is a cake made with candied or dried fruit, nuts, and spices, and optionally soaked in spirits.

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Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire (abbreviated Glos.) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Herefordshire

Herefordshire is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands region of England.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.

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John of Garland

Johannes de Garlandia or John of Garland was a medieval grammarian and university teacher.

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Judas Iscariot

Judas Iscariot (Ἰούδας Ἰσκαριώτης Ioúdas Iskariṓtēs; died AD) was—according to Christianity's four canonical gospels—a first-century Jewish man who became a disciple and one of the original Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ.

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Laetare Sunday

Laetare Sunday (Church Latin:; Classical Latin:; English) is the fourth Sunday in the season of Lent, in the Western Christian liturgical calendar.

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Lent

Lent (Quadragesima, 'Fortieth') is the solemn Christian religious observance in the liturgical year commemorating the 40 days Jesus spent fasting in the desert and enduring temptation by Satan, according to the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, before beginning his public ministry.

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List of almond dishes

This is a list of almond foods and dishes, which use almond as a primary ingredient.

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List of foods with religious symbolism

The list of foods with religious symbolism provides details, and links to articles, of foods which are used in religious communities or traditions to symbolise an aspect of the faith, or to commemorate a festival or hero of that faith group.

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Marzipan

Marzipan is a confection consisting primarily of sugar and almond meal (ground almonds), sometimes augmented with almond oil or extract.

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Mazurek (cake)

Mazurek is a variety of cake baked in Poland for Easter. Simnel cake and Mazurek (cake) are Easter cakes.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Mothering Sunday

Mothering Sunday is a day honouring mother churches, the church where one is baptised and becomes "a child of the church", celebrated since the Middle Ages in the United Kingdom, Ireland and some Commonwealth countries on the fourth Sunday in Lent.

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Placenta cake

Placenta cake is a dish from ancient Greece and Rome consisting of many dough layers interspersed with a mixture of cheese and honey and flavored with bay leaves, baked and then covered in honey.

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Refreshment Sunday

The Refreshment Sundays or Rose Sundays are Sundays within the two major fasts observed in Western Christianity, Lent and Advent.

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Ronald Hutton

Ronald Edmund Hutton (born 19 December 1953) is an English historian specialising in early modern Britain, British folklore, pre-Christian religion, and modern paganism.

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Semolina

Semolina is the name given to coarsely milled durum wheat mainly used in making pasta and sweet puddings.

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Shrewsbury

("May Shrewsbury Flourish") --> Shrewsbury is a market town, civil parish and the county town of Shropshire, England.

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Spice

In the culinary arts, a spice is any seed, fruit, root, bark, or other plant substance in a form primarily used for flavoring or coloring food.

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Sugar

Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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