词汇 | sally lunn |
词源 | Sally Lunn. Sally Lunn used to cry out her wares in the streets of the then fashionable English resort city of Bath to- ward the end of the 18th century. Her basket was filled with slightly sweetened tea biscuits, which are still called Sally Lunns, although a number of cakes and breads also bear the name today. It took an enterprising baker and musician by the name of Dalmer to make Sally Lunn’s buns universally known. Dalmer bought her recipe, built some portable ovens mounted on wheelbarrows to deliver Sally Lunns fresh, and even wrote a song about them. The song made the name a catchword that was still popular when nearly a century later a Gilbert and Sullivan character in The Sorcerer sang about “the gay Sally Lunn.” |
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