Photo: Dave Spellman from Lancashire, England, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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Pontefract cakes (also known as Pomfret cakes and Pomfrey cakes) are a type of small, roughly circular black liquorice sweet. They measure approximately 0.75 in (19 mm) wide and 0.16 in (4 mm) thick (similar to a pastille), and were originally manufactured in the West Yorkshire town of Pontefract, England.
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