rock cake

noun

a small cake containing dried fruit and spice, with a rough surface supposed to resemble a rock

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This was an invariable rule, and much as I wished for it, I was never allowed to have more than one rock cake.

He always said I ate far too much, and he would never allow me more than one rock cake and a cup of tea.

And when the last rock-cake had been consumed, declared she had to be going: Ive got piles of arith., and a four-page comp.

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