Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Mamphula

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

MAMPHU'LA. A bread cake, amongst the Hebrews, Syrians, and other Oriental races, of the following description. When a batch of bread was made in the househould, a piece of the dough was made into a cake, and baked under the ashes (Festus, s. v.), in order to be presented as an offering to the priest. This was called mamphula in the Syrian language, whence the word, and probably the custom itself, was adopted by the ancient Romans. (Lucil. Sat. p. 83. 15. Gerlach.) In our own times it is a common practice to make a piece of the dough at a baking into a cake, and bake it in the ashes for the children.