Rich fruit cakes

While there is a world market for grain and flour there is not a world market for low value short life baked products. The only sort of baked products that can be traded internationally are long life products such as biscuits and rich fruit cakes. 

Cakes more than any other category of product in this work vary in shelf life. They vary from sponge cakes to the sort of rich fruit cake that is used as a Christmas cake. Indeed it is difficult to define a cake except in terms of negatives. A cake is not yeast raised it is not a biscuit or pastry. Incidentally, Marie Antoinette probably said why do they not eat Brioche . Brioche is a sweet yeast raised product and so it is not a cake ... 

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