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Cakes - British & Regional Recipes (0 words) |
 | A traditional festival cake which often nowadays is a sponge cake decorated with various types of icing to depict a particular theme. |
| Christmas Cake is on of the last reminders of the mediaeval feast cake which often weighed 20 pounds. |
| Saffron cake is flavoured with with saffron from the stamen of the saffron crocus. |
| BBC - Manchester - Entertainment - Is the Eccles Cake still king of the pastries? (0 words) |
| They called them Eccles cakes after the general Beha-de-Dineccles and the recipe was brought back to England after The Crusades with lots of people through the years claiming it was they who invented the recipe, when in fact it is an old Turkish dish and not connected with the town of Eccles at all. |
| Hence the Eccles Cake remains rather an exotic option at the bakers for me......steps should be taken to raise the profile of the Eccles cake, with 'southern' celebs and great 'northern' footy stars be seen to tuck in to them whenever possible. |
| The Eccles cake (and the Chorley cake) rank amongst the nobility of confectionery. |
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