Simnel cake

The Simnel cake has a rather mysterious origin. The name could come from simile conspersa, which means ‘fine flour’ in Latin. But England wouldn’t be England if she didn’t try to make it a more romantic story. In 1838, a story appeared in an English newspaper entitled ‘The Sim-Nell’ or ‘The Wiltshire Cake’. Simon and Nelly were an old couple arguing at Easter about what to do with a surplus of dough. Simon thought that the dough should be baked in a