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Here is a recipe for Maid of Honour Cakes:-

Maids of honour cakes ingredients:

1/2     pint     Milk
2     tbsp.     Bread crumbs
4     oz.     butter
2     oz.     Almonds, Ground
1     oz.     Sugar
3         Eggs
1         Lemon Zest (the grated rind of one lemon)
        Puff paste

Maids of honour cakes preparation:

1. Add the butter, almonds, and sugar.
2. Beat in the eggs, one at a time.
3. Put a dessert spoonful of the mixture in the center of the pastry of the pastry, and bake until golden brown.

Various websites have recipes for them – see http://www.azcakerecipes.com/m…..e-3710.htm, http://www.greenchronicle.com/….._cakes.htm, and http://www.tafn.org.uk/kitchen….._of_honour.

You can read the history of these cakes/tarts at http://www.richmond.gov.uk/loc…..honour.pdf

“Legend has it that the recipe was locked away in an iron chest until it was rediscovered by Henry VIII who presented it to Anne Boleyn, lady-in-waiting to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. She is believed to have made the tarts for Henry who, in turn, named them ‘Maids of Honour’ after her. Another story has it that Henry came across Anne and other attendants eating the cakes from a
silver dish and, after tasting them, was so delighted that the recipe was kept secret and locked in an iron box in Richmond Palace. Yet a third version claims that, in order to protect the secret, the unfortunate ‘maid’ who invented the tarts was imprisoned within the Palace grounds and ordered to produce the pastries solely for Henry and the Royal Household.”