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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.
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]
Cloth, and then paper, became the staple materials used when books became so cheap—thanks to the introduction of steam-powered presses and mechanically produced paper—that to have them hand-bound became disproportionate to the cost of the book itself. Not only were the new types of book-covers cheaper to produce, they were also printable ...
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.
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Other books described as posthumous autobiographies were not written as such, but are collections of the subject's work collated after their death. For example, Lorraine Hansberry 's To Be Young, Gifted and Black is a collection of private writing and public statements collated by her husband Robert B. Nemiroff . [ 18 ]
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