Pippins are a variety of apple mainly grown for use in hard cider today. Historically, however, they were often used in puddings and baked desserts such as this 1623 recipe from Gervase Markham for A Pippin Tart.
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A Seed Cake
‘”Come along in, and have some tea!” he managed to say after taking a deep breath.
“A little beer would suit me better, if it is all the same to you, my good sir,” said Balin with the white beard. “But I don’t mind some cake — seed cake, if you have any.”
“Lots!” Bilbo found himself answering, to his own surprise; and he found himself scuttling off, too, to the cellar to fill a pint beer-mug, and to the pantry to fetch two beautiful round seed-cakes which he had baked that afternoon for his after-supper morsel.’ – from The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1937.
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History in the Making 