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
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
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
Simnel cake
…originally made for the fourth Sunday in Lent, also known as Laetare Sunday, the Refreshment Sunday of Lent (when the 40-day fast would be relaxed), Mothering Sunday, the Sunday of the Five Loaves, or Simnel Sunday. In the United Kingdom, it is commonly associated with Mothering Sunday and Easter Sunday. Conventionally…
On Mothering Sunday, people historically have visited the church in which they received the Christian sacrament of baptism.