 The tradition of the dole continues to the present , and every Easter Monday tea , cheese and bread are given to local widows and pensioners through the windows of Biddenden 's former workhouse . All those eligible for the annual dole are given a Biddenden cake , and they are sold as souvenirs to visitors . The cakes are baked so hard as to be inedible , to allow better preservation as souvenirs ; they are baked in large batches every few years and kept until the stock runs out . Historically , the loaves used were of the archaic quartern loaf size , but this particular part of the tradition ended when Biddenden 's last bakery closed in the 1990s . 
 The tradition of the dole <a href='uninflect' title='1'><mark>continues</mark></a> to the present , and every Easter Monday tea , cheese and bread are given to local widows and pensioners through the windows of Biddenden <a href='null_genetive' title='2'><mark>'s</mark></a>former workhouse . All those eligible for the annual dole are given a Biddenden cake , and they are sold as souvenirs to visitors . The cakes are baked so hard as to be inedible , to allow better preservation as souvenirs ; they are baked in large batches every few years and kept until the stock <a href='uninflect' title='3'><mark>runs</mark></a> out . Historically , the loaves used <a href='uninflect' title='4'><mark>were</mark></a> of the archaic quartern loaf size , but this particular part of the tradition ended when Biddenden <a href='null_genetive' title='5'><mark>'s</mark></a>last bakery closed in the 1990s . 
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