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When St. Bernard founded his abbey, near Clairvaux, he and his thirteen companions lived on barley, or cockle-bread, with boiled beech leaves as vegetables, while they were employed grubbing up the forest, and in building huts for their habitation.
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Fair maiden, white and red, Comb me smooth and stroke my head, And though shalt have some cockle-bread.
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The very homely pastime of cockle-bread may, or may not, have been named from this foreign cake, but need not here be further alluded to.
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A European custom had young women prepare "cockle-bread," a food intended to excite men's passion, by sitting on dough and wiggling around to knead it, sometimes reciting a rhyme in the process ("Up with my heels and down with my head/And this is the way to mould cockle-bread" is an example).
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