Brewer's: Marchington

(Staffordshire). Famous for a crumbling short cake. Hence the saying that a man or woman of crusty temper is “as short as Marchington wake-cake.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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