I rarely buy or make cakes, but from that list it would be carrot cake. If I did buy one it wouldn't last more than 2 days. It's the same reason as to why I don't buy biscuits. No control!
If I had a choice it would be cinnamon bun, Chelsea bun, Lardy cake, all pretty similar in taste and texture or my own flourless orange or lemon cakes.
It's a great pity the right of free speech isn't based on the obligation to say something sensible.
There is a chain of pastry shops here called Nanou ( so of course we have to channel Mork when we pass one and chant ‘nanou, Nanou’) that sell huge, delicious, cinnamon buns.They are only open for 3 hours in the evening and are famed for their doughnuts . There are always queues out of the door.
It's a great pity the right of free speech isn't based on the obligation to say something sensible.
There is a chain of pastry shops here called Nanou ( so of course we have to channel Mork when we pass one and chant ‘nanou, Nanou’) that sell huge, delicious, cinnamon buns.They are only open for 3 hours in the evening and are famed for their doughnuts . There are always queues out of the door.
In Tudor times it was considered bad manners to finish all the food on the table because others depended on what was left over. After a feast all the remaining food was distributed at the palace gates to the poor in the monarch’s name. Despite depictions of loud, dirty, bad mannered Tudors there were actually very strict rules when eating at court. These were recorded by Dutch writer Erasmus in his 1534 essay De Civitate:
· Sit not down until you have washed · Undo your belt a little if it will make you more comfortable; because doing this during the meal is bad manners · When you wipe your hands clean, put good thoughts forward in your mind, for it doesn’t do to come to dinner sad, and thus make others sad · Once you sit place your hands neatly on the table; not on your trencher and not around your belly · Any gobbit that cannot be taken easily with the hand, take it on your trencher · Don’t wipe your fingers on your clothes; use the napkin or the ‘board cloth’ · If someone is ill mannered by ignorance, let it pass rather than point it out · Don’t shift your buttocks left and right as if to let off some blast. Sit neatly and still. ('De civilitate morum puerilium' -a handbook written by Erasmus of Rotterdam)
Originally a thick slice of bread used as a primitive form of plate for eating and for slicing meat (hence its derivation from “trancher”—to cut, or carve), but by the 14th century a square or circular wooden plate of rough workmanship. There was usually a small cavity for salt in the rim of the wooden plate, and sometimes the main section was so formed that it could be turned over and the other side used for a second course.
So it looks as though it was a wooden plate of sorts.