Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
SIMNELS
Noun
simnels
plural of simnel
Anagrams
• meslins
Source: Wiktionary
SIMNEL
Sim"nel, n. Etym: [OF. simenel cake or bread of wheat flour, LL. simenellus wheat bread, fr. L. simila the finest wheat flour. Cf. Semolina.]
1. A kind of cake made of fine flour; a cracknel. [Obs.] Not common bread, but vastel bread, or simnels. Fuller.
2. A kind of rich plum cake, eaten especially on Mid-Lent Sunday. [Eng.] Herrick.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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