The British pastry named after its resemblance to dead insects
At some point in British culinary history, someone looked at a pastry filled with currants and raisins and thought: those look exactly like dead flies. Rather than keeping this observation to themselves, they told everyone, and now “flies’ graveyard“ is an accepted regional name for these sweet treats acr…
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