SIMNEL CAKE
Sir.-I wonder what authority our good friend "Aunt Daisy" has for stating that Simnel Cake is the "traditional Easter cake"’-and for all those dear little Easter eggs on it! Surely she is a little late. Simnel Cake is the traditional fare for Mothering Sunday or "Mother’s Day", four weeks before Easter at mid-Lent, a day kept throughout the Church of the
Province of New Zealand as it has been in the English Church for at least 700 years, This is the cake, or its present day descendant, referred to in the 14th century carol: And now to fetch my wheaten cake, To fetch it from the baker, He promised me, for Mother’s sake, The best he’d bake For me to fetch and take her. Simnel cakes are ordered from local bakers in England for Mothering Sunday (as are our hotcross buns for Good Friday here), and are baked in many New Zealand homes at this time. Though it seems we must have thrust upon us Santa Claus in November and "Easter’ Shows in Lent, please, oh please, let us salvage the crumbs of our Simnel Cake for Mothering Sunday!
LUCILLE
NICHOLSON
(Te Kuiti)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 927, 17 May 1957, Page 11
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195SIMNEL CAKE New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 927, 17 May 1957, Page 11
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