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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BRITAIN
 
  More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)

 
More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
Sally Lunn

Sponge tea-cake, usually served warm and buttered. Sally Lunns were a speciality of fashionable *Bath in the 18C; the earliest known reference (1780) describes them as 'spungy hot rolls'. The traditional explanation of the name was first printed in 1827, stating that Sally Lunn, a young woman of Bath, sold these cakes as a street-vendor until her recipe was taken up by one of the town's bakers.
 








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