Ruth Manning-Sanders included it in The Red King and the Witch: Gypsy Folk and Fairy Tales.
He decided to leave one day, and his mother offered him a big cake with her curse or a little one with her blessing.
The men waited until everyone there but a cook and a maid had left for a dance; then they asked them whether they would rather go or stay, and when they said go, told them to run into the castle.
The offer of a big cake or a little is common in British fairy tales —The Red Ettin, The Girl and the Dead Man, The Adventures of Covan the Brown-haired, and The King Of Lochlin's Three Daughters—but this tale is unique in that the big cake is not claimed by the hero's older brothers, but by the hero himself.
Even in Jack and his Comrades, where the hero is the only one offered it, he prefers the smaller cake and the blessing.
The traditional bannocks (breads) of the Gaelic regions held a ritual role in the marking of the seasons.