bran pie

noun

noun

Synonym of bran tub (“tub filled with bran in which small gifts are buried as a lucky dip”).

On festive occasions away from home we softened under the influence of Christmas trees, bran pies, and conjurors.1938, Siegfried Sassoon, The Old Century and seven more years, London: Faber, page 35 (1968 edition):

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