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Article: Shopping: Check it Out - SIMNEL CAKES AND COLOMBAS
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 27, 1999
- Author:
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IN JUST a few days' time Easter will be upon us. Chocoholics will
already have been dropping unsubtle hints concerning the importance
of celebrating the occasion with an egg or two.
But what if you don't like chocolate; how can you mark the end of
Lenten abstinence? By eating cake, of course. The British have
baked Simnel cakes at Easter for hundreds of years - the first
literary reference to them occurs in the reign of Edward the
Confessor. Rich, spicy fruit cakes, they are decorated with 11
marzipan balls to symbolise Jesus's faithful disciples.
The thought of buying all the ingredients to make a cake can be
off- putting, especially if you get the cooking bug only once in a
blue moon. By ...