{"id":6721,"date":"2019-03-26T18:45:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T18:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/?p=6721"},"modified":"2019-03-26T18:51:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T18:51:40","slug":"simnel-cake-a-lenten-delight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/2019\/03\/simnel-cake-a-lenten-delight\/","title":{"rendered":"Simnel Cake \u2013 A Lenten delight!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Tina Baxter returns to share the delights of Simnel Cake.\u00a0 You can join Tina on on her Mother\u2019s Day City Gardens walk at 2.00 pm on 31<sup>st<\/sup> March and mothers go free! Booking details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/mothers-day-city-gardens-2pm-tour-tickets-59263608047\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6722\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Simnel-Cake-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"A Simnel Cake made by the author's own hand!\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Simnel-Cake.jpg 225w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Simnel-Cake.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The British are great ones for traditions, and especially food related ones around Easter time.\u00a0 We have Pancake Day and in the City the Butterworth Charity give out Hot Cross Buns at St Bartholomew the Great on Good Friday. Surprisingly no one has caught on to the delights of Simnel Cake, specially baked over centuries to celebrate mid-Lent Sunday, also known as Laetare or Mothering Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Elizabeth Gaskell the author explains in a letter to a friend:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u201c<em>Instead of frumenty <\/em>(a sort of sweet porridge)<em> we eat Simnel cake: a cake made variously, but always with saffron for its principal ingredient This I should fancy was a relic of Papistry, but I wonder how it originated. Lambert Simnel, the imposter in Henry the Seventh\u2019s time was a baker\u2019s son, I think. The shop windows are filled with them, high and low eat them.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Simnel cake has gone through many changes since then and is now mainly eaten over the Easter holidays.\u00a0 Still a light rich fruit cake, saffron is rarely used incorporates almond paste (marzipan) in the middle, not part of the original recipe.\u00a0 It is also now baked rather than boiled, then grilled to give a crisp glaze to the top and the 11 marzipan balls (representing the 11 faithful disciples).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">There are considerable records which contain the word <em>simnel, <\/em>perhaps not surprising as it comes from the Latin meaning finely ground wheaten flour, and often refers to a special type of bread. Bread being the food of life. Many ancient records and chronicles mention the ordering of <em>simnel <\/em>for high days and holidays, including Edward the Confessor when he appeared at Winchester, Worcester or Westminster.\u00a0 Also William the Conqueror after the founding of Battle Abbey gave a gift to the monks of bread fit for the royal table, which was called <em>Simenel.\u00a0 <\/em>By the C13th the word also came to be used to describe a cake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The history goes on and on, how it became associated with Mothering Sunday is not clear, but there are references about the connection from C17th. Also, it might seem strange to have such a delicious cake during Lent, as cream and butter forbidden. However, eggs were not, and as its principal ingredients were all dried and preserved, and made with unleavened wheat, it was the perfect cake\/bread to celebrate the day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For further reading see History Today <em>\u2018The Historian Cookbook\u2019 Simnel Cake\u2019 <\/em>by Alexander Lee. Copy available at the Guildhall Library.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tina Baxter returns to share the delights of Simnel Cake.\u00a0 You can join Tina on on her Mother\u2019s Day City Gardens walk at 2.00 pm on 31st March and mothers go free! Booking details here. 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