Tuesday 25 November 2008 7 British regional cakes

  1. Banbury Cakes
    A sweet puff pastry cake has been made since ancient times in Banbury, Oxfordshire. The pastry is filled with raisins, currants, mixed peel, sugar and spices.
  2. Dundee Cake
    A rich fruit cake manufactured in Dundee by Keiller who add their left over marmalade ingredients to a traditional cake. The Dundee cake is topped with whole almonds
  3. Eccles Cakes
    First baked for the Eccles Wakes festival days Eccles cakes are puff pastry rounds filled with buttered dried fruit and spices
  4. Pepper Cake
    Pepper cake originated in the North of England. It is a fruit cake made with ginger and cloves. The addition of ground black pepper is unusual and gives the cake an extra spicy flavour.
  5. Lardy Cake
    A sweet cake made of bread dough, lard, sugar, and dried fruit, originating from Wiltshire
  6. Bath Buns
    The Bath bun is a rich, sweet yeast dough shaped round that has a lump of sugar baked in the bottom and more crushed sugar sprinkled on top after baking
  7. Oatmeal Bannocks
    Bannock is the Gaelic word for cake. Oatmeal bannocks are flat cakes made with oatmeal, baking soda and dripping. They are cooked on a griddle.

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