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Mar 15 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Today is Mother’s Day in the UK.
But it has nothing to do with American Mother’s Day.
The original name? Mothering Sunday. And the food that defined it for 400 years is a cake with one apostle deliberately missing. Image In 17th-century England, servants and apprentices got ONE day off per year — to walk home and visit their “mother church” where they’d been baptised.
Over time, they started visiting their actual mothers too. They brought wages saved up all year — and a cake made of the only rich ingredients available mid-Lent.