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Christmas cake Cockney rhyming slang. 39 Steps From the 39 Steps: 40 Life begins Refers to the proverb 'life begins at forty'. Naughty 40 Possibly in reference to the Naughty Forty. 41 Time for fun Rhymes with "forty-one". 42 Winnie the Pooh Rhymes with "forty-two" and in reference to Winnie-the-Pooh, a beloved UK children's book character. 43
A cake that may also be served at Christmas time in the United Kingdom, in addition to the traditional Christmas cake, is the cake known as a "Yule Log, or chocolate log". This is a Swiss roll that is coated in chocolate, resembling a log. The Christmas cake largely displaced the previously popular Twelfth-night cake during the Victorian era.
Christmas cake: A Japanese term referring to a woman who is unmarried past the age of 25, likening them to a Christmas cake that is unsold after the 25th (of December) and no longer desirable. Codger: [7] An old-fashioned or eccentric old man. Coot: [10] A crazy and foolish old man; senile man.
On Christmas, the cake is set alight and then topped with a sauce of brandy butter or rum butter, cream, lemon cream, ice cream, custard, or sweetened béchamel. It is also sometimes sprinkled ...
The Christmas cake is believed to have originated in the country in the 19th century. The dessert, made of sponge cake and buttercream swirls, was called Bûche de Noël.
The exact etymology of the term is not conclusively known, but most reliable sources cite it as having entered the mainstream in 2006. [24] The China Daily reported in 2011 that Xu Wei, the editor-in-chief of the Cosmopolitan Magazine China, coined the term. [25] The term, sheng nu, literally translates to "leftover ladies" or "leftover women".
In an Instagram video, Canal declared after she took a bite of the cake, "Let it be known: The Tom Cruise Cake is a 10 out of 10." This past August, the 26-year-old shut down romance rumors that ...
Christmas cake, a type of fruitcake served at Christmas time in the UK, Ireland, Japan, Philippines and many Commonwealth countries "Doctor Fruit Cake", a 1971 episode of Lollipop Loves Mr Mole; Dr. Fruitcake, a fictional character from The Mr. Potato Head Show; Fruit Cake Lady from the Tonight Show; fruitcake model of the atom