Skimmer cake

Skimmer cake or deck - dumpling mixture rolled out flat to form a lid on a broth

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Occasionally they had 'shin broth', a
foreleg of beef with the shin on the bone. This was boiled
until all the meat came off and the gristle turned to jelly, the
bones were removed and vegetables added with a 'deck; on top.
The deck was a dumpling mixture rolled out flat to form a lid;
in other places it is called a 'skimmer cake'.

related Bibcites

Related Bibcite references

4. From Open Hearth to Cornish Range | Feock: some aspects of Local History (Part IV) 1977

Pilchards, Bacon, Pudding skins, Skimmer cake, Shin broth, Pilchards - Scrollers or Scrowlers, Ovens/grates: Fringles, Ovens/grates: Cloam, Ovens/grates: Cornish range; slab; Cornish stove, Lard

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fl – flourished: typically linked to specific documented sources/events, when aren't in themselves providing evidence of birth and death, but do show a year/s when person alive
d.s.p. – decessit sine prole: died without issue; cf
d.s.p.m. – died without male issue
d.s.p. legit – died without legitimate offspring
dvp: – died during father`s lifetime
s and h – son and heir
o.b.s.p.legil: – died without legitimate offspring
uxor – wife (Latin, found in older parish registers): wife (Latin, found in older parish registers)'
fils – son (Latin)
Relict – widow of …

pr – (will) proved (probate)
Admon – letters of administration applied for when a person dies intestate (without leaving a Will)

BTs – bishops’ transcripts

DNB – Dictionary of National Biography
CRO – County Record Office
GRO – General Register Office

RD – Registration District (Civil Registration)
RDC – Rural District Council (after 1894)
RSD – Rural Sanitary District (1872 before 1894)

PRO – Public Record Office

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4. From Open Hearth to Cornish Range | Feock: some aspects of Local History (Part IV) 1977

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