[Sca-cooks] mysterious query (Parliament cake/gingerbread)

[Gretchen Beck]

...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."