simnels

Nor were the good folks of those days without their simnels, cracknels, and other sorts of cakes for the table, among which in the wastel we recognise the equivalent of the modern

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

“Dives Pragmaticus”: simnels, buns, cakes, biscuits, comfits, caraways, and cracknels: and this is the first occurrence of the bun that I have hitherto been able to detect.

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

Here some one was shouting command to imaginary militia; there an aged crone was offering, without price, simnels and black butter, as a sort of propitiation for an imperfect past; and from a window a notorious evil-liver was frenziedly crying that she had heard the devil and his Rocbert witches revelling in the prison dungeons the night before.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

Here some one was shouting command to imaginary militia; there an aged crone was offering, without price, simnels and black butter, as a sort of propitiation for an imperfect past; and from a window a notorious evil-liver was frenziedly crying that she had heard the devil and his Rocbert witches revelling in the prison dungeons the night before.

The Battle of the Strong — Complete A Romance of Two Kingdoms Gilbert Parker 1897

Here some one was shouting command to imaginary militia; there an aged crone was offering, without price, simnels and black butter, as a sort of propitiation for an imperfect past; and from a window a notorious evil-liver was frenziedly crying that she had heard the devil and his Rocbert witches revelling in the prison dungeons the night before.

The Battle of the Strong — Volume 1 A Romance of Two Kingdoms Gilbert Parker 1897

'These good folk have come a-mothering, and a share of their simnels we'll have.'

The Caged Lion Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

a canopy of yellow silk (brought by her father from that distant land called Piracy), mogues of hot soupe a la graisse, simnels, curds, coffee, and Jersey wonders, which last she made on the spot by dipping the little rings of dough in a bashin of lard on a charcoal fire at her side.

The Battle of the Strong — Complete A Romance of Two Kingdoms Gilbert Parker 1897