Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Simnel

Simnel , noun

[Old French simenel cake or bread of wheat flour, Late Latin simenellus wheat bread, from Latin simila the finest wheat flour. Compare Semolina.]

1.
A kind of cake made of fine flour; a cracknel. [Obsolete]
Not common bread, but vastel bread, or simnels. — Fuller
2.
A kind of rich plum cake, eaten especially on Mid-Lent Sunday. [English] — Herrick