The pastry, also called simnel cake, was a rich fruit cake, remembered by Robert Herrick in the lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liz Smith: A Chapter From The Mother Book] Reference

Earlier, she and the audience got a good laugh when she asked to hear the word "simnel" in a sentence and was told: "The Wilsons had long ago lost their appetite for simnel, but luckily their poodle had much lower standards.".    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Last year I made very traditional simnel cupcakes so I decided on a change.    From Wordnik.com.  [Easter Cupcake Nests] Reference

A simnel cake is a light fruit cake, similar to a Christmas cake, that is covered in marzipan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Princess Party Cookbook] Reference

They are eaten alongside hot cross buns, simnel cake and copious quantities of chocolate eggs as part of our Easter festivities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference

One lady made a simnel cake, and her husband thought it was fantastic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Continental marzipan is slightly different from the uncooked British almond paste my mother made for her simnel cake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference

My sister and I had to form it into 11 spheres (representing the disciples, minus Judas) to go on top of the simnel cake for tea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference

The British simnel cake is now traditional at Easter although it was originally it was a cake made to celebrate Mothering Sunday.    From Wordnik.com.  [In a strange land] Reference

Malt loaves are part of a great tradition of quaint and stodgy British cakes: simnel, Christmas and parkin - handshakes with vanished teatimes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Excellent simnel cakes (Low Lat., siminellus, fine flour) are still made in the North where the current derivation of the word is from Sim and Nell!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2] Reference

So it will be simnel cake on Friday, hot cross buns on Saturday and probably a lamb pie on Sunday (there's a recipe for my one in this weekend's magazine).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

For many, the cake tins are put away from Easter (simnel) until the leaves start falling from the trees (gingerbread or apple kuchen), but I am rather fond of a light-as-a-feather sponge on a June afternoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and style | guardian.co.uk] Reference

I say we need a little Easter, right this very minute, simnel on the table with marzipan inside it (sorry Mr Herman), just to say hooray for getting this far through life and accepting that it could be a whole lot worse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

All these were duly packed away deep in the traveller's scrip, and above them old pippin-faced brother Athanasius had placed a parcel of simnel bread and rammel cheese, with a small flask of the famous blue-sealed Abbey wine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Company]

During the finals, Anamika correctly spelled "Anasazi," a Native American culture that flourished in the New Mexico area; "simnel," a type of fruit cake; "arrhostia," an evolutionary trend; and "Neufchâtel," a type of soft cheese.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Besides these dishes of domestic origin, there were various delicacies brought from foreign parts, and a quantity of rich pastry, as well as of the simnel-bread and wastle cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ivanhoe] Reference

There were two or three varieties finer and better than these, only used by the nobles, which were therefore made at home, and not commonly to be found at the baker's: simnel, manchet or chet, and paynemayne or pain de main (a corruption of panis dominicus).    From Wordnik.com.  [One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford] Reference

Easter simnel 40–1.    From Wordnik.com.  [Princess Party Cookbook] Reference

I'll to thee a simnel bring.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2] Reference

I'll to thee a simnel bring, II.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2] Reference

Recipe: Traditional Easter simnel cake.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Wholesome, homemade chocolate chip cookies] Reference

simnel cake, Easter 40–1.    From Wordnik.com.  [Princess Party Cookbook] Reference

Easter simnel cake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Princess Party Cookbook] Reference

Tags: baking, easter, marzipan, simnel cake, traditional cake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hellomagazine.com - Home updates] Reference

The word "simnel" comes from the Latin "simila," a high grade flour.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Simnel Cake for Laetare Sunday] Reference

It's the quirky bits of information that people enjoy - the Tube Station that commemorates the Annunciation (The Angel, Islington - named after a pub of that name which dates back to Medieval times and depicts the Angel greeting Mary); the flowers and herbs named after Our Lady (marigolds, rosemary); the traditions for Maundy Thursday; the origins of words and their links with one another (eg simnel cake from the Latin similia, same word as the modern Italian semolina)...etc....etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [auntie joanna writes] Reference

For Easter, distributing chocolate eggs to various godchildren by bicycle or by post, organising domestic arrangements, Hot Cross Buns, simnel cake, etc...it has been a busy week with hospital appointments jostling with work and cookery and devotions and more...and HM Revenue and Taxes chooses this week, of all weeks, to send out our Tax return forms!...and there are letters and emails and deadlines for publishers and things...and then evening falls and a hushed congregation gathers for the solemnity of the washing of the feet and the Mass of the Last Supper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

Enchants in April...and Easter was full of good things...a glorious Easter vigil with fire and candles and heavenly music, a family enjoying a delicious lunch with talk and fun, an Easter table groaning with simnel cake and chocolate cake, and scones-with-jam-and-cream, an Easter branch decorated with home-made Easter biscuits tied with ribbons, lambs gambolling in fields, very small children hunting for Easter eggs hidden in a garden...primroses along all the banks and lanes, and even the sides of motorways, a small great-nephew playing with his train-set, and being taken to see his first Real steam-engine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference