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Simnel cake is a
fruit cake, similar to a Christmas cake, covered in marzipan eaten at
Easter in England. On the top of the cake
around the edge are eleven marzipan balls to represent the true apostles
of Jesus; Judas is omitted.
The cake is made from rich ingredients:
white
flour, fragrant
spices,
dried
fruits and peel.
Simnel cakes had been known from mediaeval
times, it was originally a
Mothering Sunday tradition. The word simnel probably derived from the
latin word simila, meaning fine, wheaten flour with which the cakes were
made.
Different towns had their own recipes and shapes of the Simnel cake. Bury,
Devizes and
Shrewsbury
produced large numbers to their own recipes, but it is the Shrewsbury version
that became most popular and well known.