Simnel Cake
| This is the traditional English Easter cake, which may provide young wives with an idea how to compromise when there is a difference of opinion about a cake; the spelling should be "Sim-Nell," for it was Simon and Nell who argued about whether the Easter cake should be plain or fruit. So Nell compromised by putting a fruit cake mixture at the bottom of the tin, then a layer of almond paste, and then an equal quantity of plain cake mixture on top. (Trust a woman to manage!) Gradually, however, it came to be the custom to make only a good fruit cake mixture, putting half into the cake tin first, then the layer of almond paste, and the other half of the mix- | ture. However in Gloucestershire, they bake the whole cake first without any almond paste, and then next day split it open through the middle, spread each | half ‘thickly with apricot jam and put it /together again with a thick layer of almond paste between in sandwich fashion. A thin spread of apricot jam and another round of almond paste goes on top of the cake. The cake mixture is 6 oz. butter, 6 oz. sugar, 8 oz. flour. | 4 eggs (added one by one), 11 Ib. mixed | fruit and 1/2 teaspoon mixed spice. Cream the butter and sugar and make as usual. Cover the almond paste on top with a little soft white icing, and set in this tiny fluffy Easter chicks, if you can still buy them, and little marzipan eggs. At Home they sometimes put an empty egg-shell filled with spring flowers in the middle of the cake.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 817, 25 March 1955, Page 32
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276Simnel Cake New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 817, 25 March 1955, Page 32
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