[Sca-cooks] Pretzels

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Or from the French craquelin:
 
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cotgrave/search/257l.html

Here  is a seventeenth century definition of a simnel:
 
"Simnel Bread is a kind of Cake or Bisket-Bread made with some Butter and  
Spice still in use in some places."
 
Λογιστολογία, or Arithmetick surveighed and reviewed: in four books, 
etc.  [Edited by Samuel Jeake, the Younger.]
J. R. and J. D., 1696
https://books.google.com/books?id=yV1jAAAAcAAJ&dq=Simnel%20Bread%20is%20a%20
kind%20of%20Cake%20or%20Bisket-Bread%20made%20with%20fome%20Butter%20and%20S
pice%20ftill%20in%20use%20in%20some%20places&pg=PA74#v=onepage&q&f=false


Jim  Chevallier

Contributor, Savoring Gotham
A Food  Lover's Companion to New York City
Editor-in-chief: Andrew F. Smith  and Foreword by Garrett Oliver
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/savoring-gotham-9780199397020?cc=us&
lang=en


In a message dated 2/25/2016 8:47:01 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
t.d.decker at att.net writes:

Cracknels are a hard, brittle cake or biscuit.  The word  appears to come 
into English from the Middle Dutch,  "crakelinc."