Research Task: C

Research Task: C

For the research task I have chosen cakes.

 In Roman times, eggs and butter were often added to basic bread to give a consistency that we would recognize as cake-like, and honey was used as a sweetener. The distinction between Roman concepts of cake and bread was therefore very blurred.

  The ‘cakewalk’ dance originated in African American communities in the Southern United States and was originally a competition in graceful walking, with cake awarded as a prize.

The word ‘cake’ comes from Middle English

The meaning of ‘cake’ has changed over time, and the first cake (according to the origina lOxford English Dictionary definition), was:

‘A comparatively small flattened sort of bread, round, oval, or otherwise regularly shaped, and usually baked hard on both sides by being turned during the process.’