CLASSIFIED CATALOGUE OF BRAND MATERIAL.
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CHRISTMASTIDE.
II. [g) Christmas Fare ; Viands. locality.
Frumenty, frutnety, furmety
(wheat boiled in milk,
sometimes with raisins) .
Christmas Eve supper
Sometimes barley used
Also eaten on New Year's Eve
Corn given by grocers
Followed by gingerbread, apple pie, cheese
Also eaten at sheep-shearing
At wakes - - - -
Occasionally met with
Eaten at tea-time
Christmas Day breakfast Cakes.
Yule-dough, yull-doo, yill- babby (cakemadein human form, one each distributed to children ; bakers pre- sented) - - - -
Yule-cake - - - -
Yule-cake, unlucky to refuse
Yule-cake, round plum cake, decorated with pastry checker-work ; eaten on Christmas Eve
" Old Wives' cake " (short- bread made and eaten Christmas Eve) - - Swaledale.
North Country. South Durham. N.E. Yorksh. Swaledale.
Filey (fishers).
Lines.
Cheshire.
Salop.
E. Yorksh., S. Yorksh-
Suffolk.
Northumberland. Durham, Yorksh. Durham (Gainford).
E. Riding.
