Eccles and Chorley cakes

[Webbo2]

Is there a Yorkshire equivalent.

 

[PaulSB]

Yes, rather appropriately it's called Sad Cake. 🤣🤣🤣

I think I can laugh. Lived in York for 4 years and Chorley for 43. I regard York as my second home.

 

[Webbo2]

Yes, rather appropriately it's called Sad Cake. 🤣🤣🤣

I think I can laugh. Lived in York for 4 years and Chorley for 43. I regard York as my second home.

Thanks for that. Well myself and Mrs W are Yorkshire born and bred and apart for a 3 year break in Lincolnshire we have lived here for over 60 years. Yet we’ve never heard of sad cakes.

 

[PeteXXX]

Sad Cake recipe..

10 oz/280g plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
Pinch of salt
4 oz/113 g lard
¼ pint/150 ml/5 fl oz milk
1 oz/28 g each of sugar and currents
Method

Sift the flour, baking powder and salt and rub in the lard.
Mix in the milk and make a dough
Divide the dough into three and form each into a round ball with a hole in the centre
Fill with the mixed sugar and currants
Cover over the hole with surrounding dough and roll out to ½ inch/ 1 cm thick. Cut into rounds.
Bake at 200°C/400° F, gas mark 6, for 15-20 minutes.
🙂

 

[Webbo2]

I did find a recipe after googling looks like the same one. It won’t be happening in the Webbo household with lard in it.

 

[Reynard]

Gah, now I'm wanting lardy cake!

 

[FrankCrank]

Do you wear clogs when you make that cake, and guess you give some to the whippet too, and any crumbs leftover to the pigeons in the loft

 

[classic33]

'Owabout Yorkshire Currant and Mint Crackney Pastie

 

[BrumJim]

Parkin?

 

[FrankCrank]

Had a mate working up in Yorkshire many years back, and he told us a story of when he went to the local chippie.
A scrawny lad was in front at the counter, and he asked for a chip balm pea wet.
Reminded me of going to our local chippie as kids, and ordering up something, and asking for some scrag ends if they had any, just bits of batter that were left in the fryer.

 

[figbat]

What about the Banbury cake? It’s similar in type.

 

[Webbo2]

Had a mate working up in Yorkshire many years back, and he told us a story of when he went to the local chippie.
A scrawny lad was in front at the counter, and he asked for a chip balm pea wet.
Reminded me of going to our local chippie as kids, and ordering up something, and asking for some scrag ends if they had any, just bits of batter that were left in the fryer.

Your scag ends would be Yorkshires scraps.

 

[Tenkaykev]

The best Eccles cake that I have ever tasted is made by Bennets bakery in Poole. Absolutely sublime

 

[sevenfourate]

The best Eccles cake that I have ever tasted is made by Bennets bakery in Poole. Absolutely sublime

My fave ‘cake’ ever (Eccles).

***Currently investigating long weekends in Poole 🤣

 

[figbat]

Eccles, Chorley or Banbury - love ‘em all!