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Title: Eccles cake or Chorely cake?
Post by: on September 03, 2006, 08:51:52 pm
Which of these Lancashire sweetmeats do you favour.  I go for Chorely cakes, they always seem more buttery and full of fruit.  I want one now with a cup of tea.
Title: Eccles cake or Chorely cake?
Post by: loulou on September 03, 2006, 08:52:53 pm
It's chorley not chorely
Title: Eccles cake or Chorely cake?
Post by: on September 03, 2006, 08:56:48 pm
Bugger
Title: Eccles cake or Chorely cake?
Post by: kevvosa on September 03, 2006, 09:37:01 pm
Does anyone else here call Eccles cakes squashed fly cakes?

Title: Eccles cake or Chorely cake?
Post by: Forth Bridges on September 03, 2006, 09:41:10 pm
ELLCES
  OR NO PIC AVBLE!

Chorley cakes are flattened, fruit-filled pastry cakes, traditionally associated with the town of Chorley in Lancashire, UK. They are a close relative of the more widely known Eccles cake,
but have some significant differences. The Chorley cake is
significantly less sweet than its more blousy cousin, and is commonly
eaten with a scraping of butter on top, and perhaps a slice of Lancashire cheese on the side. A Chorley cake is made using currants, sandwiched between two layers of unsweetened shortcrust pastry.
As with any regional food, every household has its own individual
variations, and so it is not uncommon to see some sugar added to the
fruit, or sweeter raisins or sultanas used. These sweeter varieties are sometimes referred to as a "snap".


The "Chorley cake street fair", which is held yearly in the town, is
an attempt to cash in on the cake's popularity, with local bakers
competing to produce the largest ever specimen.



Title: Eccles cake or Chorely cake?
Post by: Jamsi on September 03, 2006, 10:06:09 pm
What are chorley cakes then?
Title: Eccles cake or Chorely cake?
Post by: Forth Bridges on September 03, 2006, 10:11:27 pm

Title: Eccles cake or Chorely cake?
Post by: Jamsi on September 03, 2006, 10:28:54 pm
They look orrible!
Title: Eccles cake or Chorely cake?
Post by: oldspice on September 04, 2006, 07:57:59 am
I like Eccles cakes best. Does anyone else know of/like lardey caker?
Title: Eccles cake or Chorely cake?
Post by: goldencup on September 04, 2006, 09:18:41 am
I know of them but I don't like them.  When I was a child my family used to have them at Sunday teatime but I never liked them.