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Heavy cake or Hevva cake (Cornish: Hevva) is a cake made from flour lard butter milk sugar and raisins that originated in Cornwall.Its name is derived from the Pilchard industry in Cornwall prior to the 20th century when a ‘huer’ (cliff top lookout) helped locate shoals of fish. The huer would shout ‘Hevva! Hevva!’ to alert the boats to the location of the pilchard shoals.
