"Wayne Boatwright" wrote in message
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On Tue 01 Aug 2017 04:30:08p, Wayne Boatwright told us...

> On Tue 01 Aug 2017 02:01:21p, tert in seattle told us...
>
>> Speaking of food history ...
>>
>> I read Bartleby the Scrivener again last night. (Also watched
>> Season 2 Episode 2 of Black Mirror. I didn't quite OD on
>> existential bleakness but was getting there.) It wasn't easy to
>> figure out what sort of thing was being described - small, flat,
>> round - and when eaten, they crunch. Then it occurred to me that
>> "cake" may have meant something in the 1850s that it no longer
>> means today. Were these ginger nut cookies??
>>
>>
>
> Sounds like it.
>

My grandmother's cook used to make what she called "tea cakes", but
were in fact a type of sugar cookie.


Wayne Boatwright

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These are our teacakes:

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/...-grey-teacakes

We usually eat them toasted with butter)


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