Shrewsbury cake

== English == === Noun === Shrewsbury cake (plural Shrewsbury cakes) A type of flat, crisp biscuit traditionally made in Shrewsbury. 1794, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 276: I bought some Shrewsbury cakes at Mr. Paul's in — Street, Covent Garden, eating some of which supported me somewhat. 1832 August 2, Queen Victoria, journal: I received from the mayor an oaken box with a silver top and filled with the famous Shrewsbury cakes.