C6 - Sunday, March 21, 1982 - North Shore News

SIMNEL CAKE

An ancient Lent tradition

Today. March 21. 1s the fourth Sunday in Lent traditionally known as Mothering Sunday

It gets its name from the Epistle that was usually read on this day. Galatians 4 21- 31. St. Paul is talking about the mother of Abraham's two sons and about “Jerusalem which is the mother of us all.”

In Medieval England servants were given the day off to be with their mothers. Sons and daughters who had moved away travelled what sometimes amounted to great distances just to spend the day back at their child- hood homes. It was the original Mother's Day. The chidren usually took thetr mothers flowers and a gift of Stmnel Cake.

The day 1s sometimes also called Refreshment Sunday because the Gospel usually read was from St. John 6 and is about the muraculous feeding of the five thousand.

It was also a “refreshment” day because for this day there were flowers in church (unlike the rest of Lent) and a piece of simnel cake was aNowed

No one is sure about the ongin of the name Simnel It may have come from = the Latin word for a fine flour Since simnel cake was a special. rich cake it made from the finest white flour, almonds, fruits and spices. The top of the cake was decorated with I] small balls of almond paste These each represented an Apostle. leaving out the traitor Judas

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SIMNEL CAKE &o7 bulter 8 oz. white sugar So7 flour 2 oz. blanched chopped almonds 4epgeps salt

1'a Ibs) mixed fruit

‘4 Ib. candied cherries (opuonal} ‘. 1b. mixed peel pinch of allspice grated rind of '2 lemon almond flavoring 1 Stsp. baking soda

1 dessertspoon vanilla & or 9” round of tube pan

Mix all as you do for Christmas cake.

Place half the mixture ina tin well lined with greased brown paper. Smooth the mixture and cover with a round of almond paste. Place other half of cake mixture on top. Bake at 275°F for about 4'2 hours. Place pan of boiling water in oven at same time, as you do with Christmas cake.

Remove from oven and cool. When cool cover cake with second round of almond paste. Make !1 small balls of almond paste to decorate the

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If you have used a tube pan the space in the centre may be filled with a small vase of flowers.

This recipe was submitted by the ladies of St. Clement's Anglican Church, where Simnel Cake will be served following the Sunday morning service, March 21. It has been done at this church for the last 25 years

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