User:Sticky Parkin/Rock cake

A rock cake is a small cake originating in the United Kingdom. The cake may be hard enough that Michael Palin writes in the Daily Telegraph that one removed his father's dentures. They were served at childrens parties in New York in 1893 It is considered to sustain to the extent that it was part of troops' rations at the coronation of George IV

The rock cake may serve as a metaphor for tough times or a low standard of performance. . The hardness of the cake led to a sketch by Benny Hill in which one was used to batter someone to death

However, it is served in the house of commons tea rooms To make a good rock cake may require searching for a good recipe, and some recipies are inherited