[Sca-cooks] mysterious query (Parliament cake/gingerbread)
Gretchen Beck
grm at andrew.cmu.edu
Wed Jan 24 10:36:31 PST 2007
...and a websearch on "parliament gingerbread" finds a slightly earlier
reference:
<http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/html_units/1790s/t17991030-85.html>WILLIAM
BURGIN, ISAAC MARTIN, JACOB DACOSTA, theft : simple grand larceny, theft :
receiving stolen goods, 30th October, 1799.
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Ref: t17991030-85
"Q. There is gingerbread in different forms; there is nuts and parliament
gingerbread? - A. No, that is what we call shop-goods, we never sell them
at fairs."
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