sorry please delete this thread

Cleat Eastwood

the number of posts on the Road section is 1111110 , how binary, but now i've smegged it up. D'oh.

Kenjaja1

Cleat Eastwood wrote:

the number of posts on the Road section is 1111110 , how binary, but now i've smegged it up. D'oh.

Exactly the same number of posts as in this ......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfzUx6PiNd8

LeicesterLad

Richard_D

I am sure that Eccles cakes are made in Chorley but less sure about Chorley cakes made in Eccles. What happened to Lancashire currant cake I have not seen that for years. How many towns in the UK have pastries and cakes named after them?I can think of a few.

Chorley Eccles Lancashire Dundee Bakewell Shrewsbury Pontefract

Stewie Griffin

memsley89

binary code must be divisible by 8...

Kenjaja1

A duck billed platypus may be delicious when stewed in syrup and served with cream but it is definitely not a cake

I do not understand the other picture (looks like downtown Kabul). Is the crouching gunman about to shoot the standing gunman in the backside (or worse :shock: ) so he reaches the high note required by the guitar strummer?

Richard: Pontefract 'cakes' are made from liquorice. They therefore have something in common with duck bill platypusses in that neither are cakes. As a further bit of useless information (in keeping with the spirit of this thread) I feel I should alert people to the dangers posed by pontefract 'cakes'

In addition to the problems suffered by the woman in this article you will notice (if you read to the end!) that pontefract cakes can lower testosterone levels with consequential affects on sex drive....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3733757.stm

Which reminds me of the smartie who, somewhat embarassed, went to his doctor saying he believed he had contracted a sexually transmitted disease. His doctor tried to reassure him by telling him that smarties to not get STD's as no sweets do. The smartie, however insisted and admitted that he had been sleeping with all sorts...... :roll:

Kenjaja1

Richard_D wrote:

I am sure that Eccles cakes are made in Chorley but less sure about Chorley cakes made in Eccles. What happened to Lancashire currant cake I have not seen that for years. How many towns in the UK have pastries and cakes named after them?I can think of a few.

Chorley Eccles Lancashire Dundee Bakewell Shrewsbury Pontefract

Bath Buns
Battenberg cake
Belgian Buns (Only famous town was Brusels: the sprouts got that so they used the rest of the country for their other export line) btw these are also known in some circles as nuns tits but I have no idea why.
Chelsea Buns
Danish Pastries (No one knows any Danish towns so they named them all after the whole country)
Madiera Cake (See notes about Danish Pastries and Belgian Buns)
Portugese Custard tarts (.....ditto........)
Tottenham Cake (& you all thought the place was only famous for riots!)
Viennese Whirls

btw Richard I take a slightly less parochial view of cakes than you & so include international offerings to add to your list

Richard_D

I admit the Pontefract was put in there as a red Herring. I knew it was a sweet rather than a biscuit or a cake.
Bath has 2 because apart from the Bath buns you have Bath Olivers as well though they are savoury rather than sweet.
If we are going International we could always bring up the staple of 70s dinner parties The Black Forest Gateau

Gizmodo

Kenjaja1 wrote:

Richard: Pontefract 'cakes' are made from liquorice. They therefore have something in common with duck bill platypusses in that neither are cakes. As a further bit of useless information (in keeping with the spirit of this thread) I feel I should alert people to the dangers posed by pontefract 'cakes'

In addition to the problems suffered by the woman in this article you will notice (if you read to the end!) that pontefract cakes can lower testosterone levels with consequential affects on sex drive....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3733757.stm

This article says:
Haribo, one of the companies that manufacture Pontefract cake, said people shouldn't eat too much of it.

And we know who pushes Haribo....

Kenjaja1

Richard_D wrote:

I admit the Pontefract was put in there as a red Herring. I knew it was a sweet rather than a biscuit or a cake.
Bath has 2 because apart from the Bath buns you have Bath Olivers as well though they are savoury rather than sweet.
If we are going International we could always bring up the staple of 70s dinner parties The Black Forest Gateau

Herrings of any colour are also not cakes
According to Wiki Both the bun and the biscuit were both invented by the same bloke - a Dr Oliver. What a splendid contribution to humanity!
Black Forest Gateaux - Terrible stuff I could never consume more than 5 whole ones. Why did they go out of fashion?

Stone Glider

How about Welsh Cakes? They can be a bit crumbly for jersey pockets, so eat them quickly.

deptfordmarmoset

Richard_D wrote:

I am sure that Eccles cakes are made in Chorley but less sure about Chorley cakes made in Eccles. What happened to Lancashire currant cake I have not seen that for years. How many towns in the UK have pastries and cakes named after them?I can think of a few.

Chorley Eccles Lancashire Dundee Bakewell Shrewsbury Pontefract

Lancashire is not a town. Neither is Yorkshire. But there is a Yorkshire Parkin, which with its oats, treacle and ginger, must surely be an excellent mid-winter ride snack.

http://britishfood.about.com/od/recipei ... parkin.htm

Kenjaja1

deptfordmarmoset wrote:

Lancashire is not a town. Neither is Yorkshire. But there is a Yorkshire Parkin, which with its oats, treacle and ginger, must surely be an excellent mid-winter ride snack.

http://britishfood.about.com/od/recipei ... parkin.htm

This is a new one on me as I have never heard of it in all my many decades of cake scoffing. I clicked on the link and up popped a beautifully simple recipe - but with a major flaw. The recipe writer claims it gets stickier "If you keep it in an airtight tin". Then someone who has reviewed the recipe said it was stickier after a week and that it still tasted good after two weeks.

I have never in my like 'kept' a cake for anything more than the bare minimum of time. I can't recall keeping a cake for a week and certainly no cake has ever survived in my house for two weeks

If you want to make things to keep you take a hobby like wood carving; If you make cake you attack it as soon as it has cooled sufficiently that you do not burn your mouth. I thought everyone in the world knew this :roll: When there is no cake left you make another one and so the cycle continues

(I am sure I once read in a history book that marriage was invented as a way for cake eaters to get cake makers permanently into their houses and thus to perpetuate this vital cycle of baking and eating.)

Keeping cake is a cardinal sin in my religion so please let's not have any more of this blasphemy - or Fatwas will be issued

I have removed the offensive bits from the recipe and passed it on to SWMBO so she can test the cooking bit and then I'll form my own opinion on the quality of stickiness etc

deptfordmarmoset

SWMBO=She Who Must Bake Obediently?

Traditionally it was eaten on bonfire night, so if you get her to bake 3 of them, you can do a staggered tasting with the final sampling on the 5th. Don't forget to compliment her on the warming, spicy, sticky moistness.

Richard_D

As a Lancastrian born and bred I know it is not a town, Though it is not the county It was one I was born. With respect to Parkin I had never associated it with a particular locale. It was just a northern Gingerbread. According to Wikipedia there are 2 variants and I prefer the Lancashire version and I would prefer either to the tottenham cake.

As for adding additional regional Confections apart from Welsh cake I forgot about Scotch pancakes and Dorset apple pie. I am glad I have just had my dinner other wise I might start feeling hungry.

Stewie Griffin

Why hasn't London got a cake?

cornerblock

Stewie Griffin wrote:

Why hasn't London got a cake?

Angel cake?

lemoncurd

Stewie Griffin wrote:

Why hasn't London got a cake?

Chelsea Buns.

Cleat Eastwood

I seem to remember greggs selling a manchester tart, but i might have dreamt it.

desweller

Kenjaja1 wrote:

deptfordmarmoset wrote:

Lancashire is not a town. Neither is Yorkshire. But there is a Yorkshire Parkin, which with its oats, treacle and ginger, must surely be an excellent mid-winter ride snack.

http://britishfood.about.com/od/recipei ... parkin.htm

This is a new one on me as I have never heard of it in all my many decades of cake scoffing. I clicked on the link and up popped a beautifully simple recipe - but with a major flaw. The recipe writer claims it gets stickier "If you keep it in an airtight tin". Then someone who has reviewed the recipe said it was stickier after a week and that it still tasted good after two weeks.

I have never in my like 'kept' a cake for anything more than the bare minimum of time. I can't recall keeping a cake for a week and certainly no cake has ever survived in my house for two weeks

If you want to make things to keep you take a hobby like wood carving; If you make cake you attack it as soon as it has cooled sufficiently that you do not burn your mouth. I thought everyone in the world knew this :roll: When there is no cake left you make another one and so the cycle continues

(I am sure I once read in a history book that marriage was invented as a way for cake eaters to get cake makers permanently into their houses and thus to perpetuate this vital cycle of baking and eating.)

Keeping cake is a cardinal sin in my religion so please let's not have any more of this blasphemy - or Fatwas will be issued

I have removed the offensive bits from the recipe and passed it on to SWMBO so she can test the cooking bit and then I'll form my own opinion on the quality of stickiness etc

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MattC59

Too much red wine last night............ touch of a hangover today !!!

rozzer32

Cleat Eastwood wrote:

I seem to remember greggs selling a manchester tart, but i might have dreamt it.

You sure that wasn't the bird behind the counter??

Cleat Eastwood

Everyone keep an eye out for Rozzer, he's ptp champ, so he might just try a sneaky attack.

rozzer32

Cleat Eastwood wrote:

Everyone keep an eye out for Rozzer, he's ptp champ, so he might just try a sneaky attack.

Too busy stuffing my face with a bacon BARM at the minute

Cleat Eastwood

in honour of Betty Driver the first one to page 50 gets a hotpot.

1892

Is she dead?

Cleat Eastwood

1892 wrote:

Is she dead?

Yeah 91. Good innings for a fine variety act. George Formby fancied her like mad.

1892

That's a shame, she always seemed such a nice old dear.

Stewie Griffin

Never had a hot pot, what's in it?