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Sally Lunn
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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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