Let her eat cake? Answer Man whips up a traditional simnel.
The earliest reliable reference Answer Man can find in The Washington Post to simnel cake is from April 5, 1912, in a section titled “Facts and Fancies in a Woman’s World.” The most recent reference is, well, you’re looking at it.Back in 1912, The Post described simnel cake as a “rich plum cake, which is incased in a paste and first boiled and then baked, with the result that the ‘husk’ is of extraordinary hardness, but forms a splendid protection for the rich and plummy ‘kernel.
It sounds like simnel cakes are hard to make and hard to eat . So why has Answer Man become obsessed with them? Honestly, it’s because until about 10 years ago, he’d never heard of simnel cakes and of their connection to Mother’s Day.We’re talking Mother’s Day in the U.K., not Mother’s Day in the U.S. of A. Over there, Mother’s Day is celebrated about a month earlier than here. That places it closer to Easter, the other holiday with which simnel cakes are associated.
Anyway, the recipes Answer Man found in that ancient library sounded complex. And the end product didn’t sound all that tasty. It’s basically a cake riddled with dried fruit, the sort of confection that’s the butt of jokes around Christmas. But Answer Man thought he knew everything and was surprised he hadn’t known about simnel cakes.
An 1874 book called “History of the Borough of Bury and Neighbourhood in the County of Lancaster” includes this: “Some allege that the father of, was a baker and the first maker of simnels, and that his son’s celebrity shed lustre upon his father’s cakes.”Nelly
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