Mothering Sunday
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Mothering Sunday is a day honouring mother churches, the church where one is baptised and becomes "a child of the church", celebrated since the Middle Ages in the United Kingdom, Ireland and some Comm
On Mothering Sunday, people historically have visited the church in which they received the Christian sacrament of baptism.
Simnel cake
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Simnel cake is a fruitcake associated with Lent and Easter and widely eaten in the United Kingdom, Ireland and countries with patterns of migration from them. It is distinguished by layers of almond p
Mothering Sunday
…the Feeding of the Five Thousand and the reprieve from fasting, various types of cakes and buns have long been made for Mothering Sunday, especially simnel cake, as gifts to parents. This is a traditional confection associated with both Mothering Sunday and Easter. In Bristol and some other parts of the world…
Simnel cake (this one has ten balls around the edge and one in the centre, traditionally it would have all eleven around the edge)
Simnel cake decorated with marzipan
A slice of the cake showing dried fruits
Shrewsbury simnel cake with pastry covering and crenellated decoration, 1869