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Shrewsbury cake
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Noun
A type of flat, crisp biscuit traditionally made in Shrewsbury.
xv 46 Why Brother Willfull of Salop, you may be as ſhort as a Shrewſbury Cake, if you pleaſe.
1794, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 276:
I bought some Shrewsbury cakes at Mr. Paul's in — Street, Covent Garden, eating some of which supported me somewhat.
1832 August 2, Queen Victoria, journal:
I received from the mayor an oaken box with a silver top and filled with the famous Shrewsbury cakes.
en Cakes and pastries