Pontefract cakes (also known as Pomfret cakes and Pomfrey cakes) are a type of small roughly circular black sweet measuring approximately 2 cm in diameter and 4 mm thick made of liquorice originally manufactured in the Yorkshire town of Pontefract England.
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