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Cakes and wine were a common feature of Easter traditions. Some 19th-century authors believed that the tradition of eating tansy cakes, which had a sweet and bitter flavor, was connected to Jewish traditions of eating cakes made with bitter herbs. Sometimes the tansy was closer to a pudding than a
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plant. The simplest version of the recipe was made by baking a batter flavored with green tansy juice. Later recipes, like the one from the 16th-century
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Tansy cakes

Easter
medieval English cuisine
tansy
parsley
feverfew
violets
pancakes
The Compleat Housewife
sack
gooseberries
Hannah Glasse
Art of Cookery
Naples biscuits
almonds
rose water
orange blossom water
"Tansy"
"Remembering the Tansy, the Forgotten Easter Pancake of Centuries Past"
Notes and Queries
Table Talk Volume 28
Categories
Easter cakes
Medieval cuisine
British cakes

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