Wigg

Wigg is an old English term for wedge shaped loaf or cake.

Referenced in The Diary of Samuel Pepys:-

The word is first recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary in 1376 in the Guildhall Rolls, referring to a kind of bread. In 1688 a wigg is defined, “Wigg is White bread, moulded long ways and thick in the middle”. Several of the quotations seem to imply that wigg was especially regarded as Lenten fare; it is several times recorded as being accompanied by ale, and there is one reference (1660) to ‘the risings of beers’ being used as the raising agent for the baking of wigg. The last citation in OED is from the writing of Mrs. Humphrey Ward in 1888.