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 CLASSIFIED CATALOGUE OF BRAND MATERIAL.

{Continued from Vol. XXVIII. p. 431.)

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.