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lardy cake

British  

noun

  1. a rich sweet cake made of bread dough, lard, sugar, and dried fruit

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"I am married to a Frenchwoman and my bilingual children seem to be equally happy with a Dorset lardy cake or a chocolate eclair," he said.

From The Guardian

There was a good deal said about her bad nights, and her appetite, and how the doctor wanted her to take as much as she could, and how everything went against her--even lardy cake and roly-poly pudding with bacon in it!

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