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In some places it is the custom to send to the friends of a family, after a death, a bag of biscuits with the card of the deceased. These funeral biscuits - often small, round sponge cakes - were known as arvel bread - arvel meaning ale. When arvel bread is passed around at a funeral each guest is expected to put a shilling on the plate. [1]
The Dutch doed-koecks or 'dead-cakes', marked with the initials of the deceased, introduced into America in the 17th century, were long given to the attendants at funerals in old New York. The 'burial-cakes' which are still made in parts of rural England, for example Lincolnshire and Cumberland, are almost certainly a relic of sin-eating.
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Soul cakes eaten during Halloween, All Saints' Day, and All Souls' Day A soul cake , also known as a soulmass-cake , is a small round cake with sweet spices, which resembles a shortbread biscuit. It is traditionally made for Halloween , All Saints' Day , and All Souls' Day to commemorate the dead in many Christian traditions.
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