SIMNEL CAKE
This is the traditional Easter Cake, and was originally a compromise between a fruit cake for the husband Simon, and a plain cake for the wife, Nell. Resourceful Nell put a fruit cake mixture at the bottom of the cake tin, then a layer of almond paste and then a plain cake mixture on top. Nowadays, Simnel Cake is made just with the one fruit cake mixture, but it is still put in the cake tin in two halves, with the almond paste layer between, and little "Easter Eggs" made of -almond paste are arranged round the edge of the iced top. These look very pretty, especially if one or two fluffy yellow "Easter Chickens" sold by confectioners are put on also,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 714, 20 March 1953, Page 22
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124SIMNEL CAKE New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 714, 20 March 1953, Page 22
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