Shrewsbury cake

English

Noun

Shrewsbury cake (plural Shrewsbury cakes)

1. A type of flat, crisp biscuit traditionally made in Shrewsbury.
   • 1700, [William] Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene xv, page 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.