Banbury cake

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Banbury cake

(Cookery) Brit a cake consisting of a pastry base filled with currants, raisins, candied peel, and sugar, with a crisscross pattern on the top

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As an aside, the local newspaper is called the Banbury Cake. So let's hope Carl Macauley's Mariners are able to rise to the occasion.

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In Swindon, the GWR heartland, his Banbury cake and pork pie were "obviously stale".

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Much of it is advertised as innocent-sounding "massages" or "home visits" in the local paper The Banbury Cake and the freesheet WHY.

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The version that developed in Shrewsbury was rather different, though it had links with the Banbury cake, which also enclosed a curranty mixture in pastry.

Proof of the pudding; Chris Upton looks at a traditional Easter cake which, it is said, was created following a heated marital row

Banbury cakes are oval-shaped and use shortcrust pastry while Godcakes use puff pastry and are easily distinguished by their triangular shape.

God-ly treats that deserve a big revival; An historic Midland cake recipe features in a new book of beloved British bakes. Mary Griffin meets the woman behind the revival of Coventry Godcakes

They were delicious - something like Banbury Cakes.

Pen points

One of the local bakers still bakes the famous Banbury cakes. One bite is sufficient to say that you have tasted a Banbury cake--do not waste money on more than one.

A week in an English cottage

The event, held in Banbury midway through last month, saw contestants having to choose the subject of their cries from three options: Banbury 1914, Banbury Cross and Banbury Cakes, with John going for the latter.

A ringing endorsement; John Stevens is a national champion at town crying, holds a clutch of other titles and is the official b ellman of Alnwick. He has also appeared in Vera, written a cry for Geordie Shore and is living with prostate cancer and a host of other ailments. BRIAN DANIEL finds out more

Opinions differ on the definitive recipe, but some key ingredients differentiate the Eccles cake from similar products such as Chorley cakes and Banbury cakes.

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Swindon - always the GWR heartland - went down in infamy for it was there that Brunel consumed 'Banbury cakes and pork pies - obviously stale'.

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Contestants had to choose the subject of their cries from three options: Banbury 1914, Banbury Cross and Banbury Cakes, with John going for the latter.