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simnel

NOUN
  1. a fruitcake (sometimes covered with almond paste) eaten at mid-Lent or Easter or Christmas
  2. a crisp bread of fine white flour

How To Use simnel In A Sentence

  • 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. Undefined
  • “Dives Pragmaticus”: simnels, buns, cakes, biscuits, comfits, caraways, and cracknels: and this is the first occurrence of the bun that I have hitherto been able to detect. Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine
  • 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). One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford
  • Simnel means fine flour and the cake is densely packed with almond paste, currants, citrus peel and spices.
  • She baked simnel cake, parkin and scones and made ‘mintoes’ out of powdered milk, syrup and peppermint.
  • Simnel means fine flour and the cake is densely packed with almond paste, currants, citrus peel and spices.
  • Spring bulb flowers (daffodils, for ex.) are given to mothers, and simnel cake is made to celebrate the occasion (this cake has also become an Easter Cake of late, however). Simnel Cake for Laetare Sunday
  • Last year I made very traditional simnel cupcakes so I decided on a change. Easter Cupcake Nests
  • The pastry, also called simnel cake, was a rich fruit cake, remembered by Robert Herrick in the lines: Liz Smith: A Chapter From The Mother Book
  • A simnel cake is a light fruit cake, similar to a Christmas cake, that is covered in marzipan. Princess Party Cookbook
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