simnel

A crisp bread made of fine wheat flour.

A rich fruitcake sometimes covered with almond paste and traditionally eaten at mid-Lent, Easter, and Christmas.

A cake made of fine flour; a kind of rich sweet cake offered as a gift at Christmas and Easter, and especially on Mothering (Simnel) Sunday.

A variety of squash having a round flattish head with a wavy or scalloped edge, and so resembling the cake so called: now called simlin.

A kind of cake made of fine flour; a cracknel.

A kind of rich plum cake, eaten especially on Mid-Lent Sunday.

simnel cake

a fruitcake (sometimes covered with almond paste) eaten at mid-Lent or Easter or Christmas

a crisp bread of fine white flour