They're mentioned in Beatrix Potter's "Ginger & Pickles." Something
baked, I'm guessing. Any clue? For that matter, how are "butter buns"
different from other buns?

Lenona.

wrote:

> They're mentioned in Beatrix Potter's "Ginger & Pickles." Something
> baked, I'm guessing. Any clue? For that matter, how are "butter buns"
> different from other buns?
>
> Lenona.
>

According to the OED:

wig: A kind of bun or small cake made of fine flour.


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On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 21:34:57 GMT, Charlene Charette wrote:

> wrote:
>
> > They're mentioned in Beatrix Potter's "Ginger & Pickles." Something
> > baked, I'm guessing. Any clue? For that matter, how are "butter buns"
> > different from other buns?
> >
> > Lenona.
> >
>
> According to the OED:
>
> wig: A kind of bun or small cake made of fine flour.
>
>
http://tinyurl.com/9y27r
But a person cannot live on "seed wigs" and sponge-cake and butter-
buns--not even when the sponge- cake is as good as Timothy's!

Butter-buns are obvious, seed wigs are not. Thanks for the
definition.

Charlene Charette wrote:
> wrote:
>
>> They're mentioned in Beatrix Potter's "Ginger & Pickles." Something
>> baked, I'm guessing. Any clue? For that matter, how are "butter buns"
>> different from other buns?
>>
>> Lenona.
>>
>
> According to the OED:
>
> wig: A kind of bun or small cake made of fine flour.

As a 'seed cake' used caraway seeds it would seem reasonable
that a 'seed wig' was a small caraway cake. Sounds good to me.

Noises Off

[I love seed cake, I used to make it. I only ever met one
other person who could even stand it]

On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 22:55:59 +0100, Noises Off wrote:

>
> [I love seed cake, I used to make it. I only ever met one
> other person who could even stand it]

Really? I doesn't sound bad to me.