...in the Balkan peninsula a small bread image of the deceased is made and eaten by the survivors of the family. The Dutch ''doed-koecks'' or 'dead-cakes', marked with the initials of the deceased, introduced into America in the 17th century, were long given to the attendants at funerals in old New York. The 'burial-cakes' which are still made in parts of rural England, for example Lincolnshire and Cumberland, are almost certainly a relic of sin-eating.