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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.
Layer cake Birthday fruit cake Raisin cake. Cake is a flour confection made from flour, sugar, and other ingredients and is usually baked.In their oldest forms, cakes were modifications of bread, but cakes now cover a wide range of preparations that can be simple or elaborate and which share features with desserts such as pastries, meringues, custards, and pies.
Soul cakes formed a key part of the Souling traditions. In Staffordshire, the cakes were also called Soul-mass or "somas" cakes. In East Yorkshire, "somas loaves" were traditionally distributed. [33] In some counties, the Soul-mass cake was "made on All Souls' Day, November 2nd, and always in a triangular shape". [34]
A cake made primarily from almond paste, eggs, and melted butter. Pão de Ló [31] Italy [31] A sponge cake traditionally made by Italian Jewish families for Passover. [32] Pancake: United States, Canada: A flat, round cake made with eggs, milk, and flour. Pandan cake: Malaysia Indonesia: A light, fluffy, green-colored sponge cake.
Depression cake is a type of cake that was commonly made during the Great Depression. The ingredients include little or no milk, sugar, butter, or eggs, because the ingredients were then either expensive or hard to obtain. Similar cakes are known as "War Cake", as they avoided ingredients that were scarce or were being conserved for the use of ...
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Icing the cake took five and a half weeks [36] and involved creating 700 piped ‘off-pieces’ that were made separately then attached to the cake, together with “numerous spares” in case of emergency. [20] Several of the off-pieces were carved by Vincent New, a draughtsman at the Admiralty. He carved the designs into wax and these ...
In Europe, ash cakes were made into a small, round and flat loaf, usually consisting of a little wheat and sometimes rye, baked under an inverted iron pan over which the ashes of the fire were heaped. [9] This was almost exclusively the bread of the peasants. [9] In French, this type of bread was called fougasse. [9]