favourite cake

One with no calories

Butter Madeira.

I really wish I had asked for the recipe now but my Father used to make the most delicious coconut flan. Think it was from my Mother's Bero Book.

There was a Kardomah in Glasgow in the 60's and I always ordered lemon tea.

My friends and I ordered the lemon tea thinking it was the height of sophistication

I remember the lemon tea at the kardomah in Brum in the 60s. Lovely. Want it called Russian tea?

I wasn't absolutely sure if I had remembered that correctly Galen. Nice to know I can remember 'something'!

The Be-Ro recipe book, think I may have one still kicking about Agus so if so, will check on the coco. flan.I bet it featured evaporated milk!
newist.... manageress of a cake shop, dream job or what?

Oh, yes, roses! The Be-Ro book was excellent. I lost mine in a misguided clear-out some years ago. I wish I could eat more cake more often but if I did, I would always have Chelsea buns and chocolate brownies and cream scones. Not all at once. I remember the Kardomahs - and the various Cadena Cafés as well. Betty's in Harrogate, anyone?

My mum who would be 99 now used the Be-Ro book since I was a child. She always made the birthday cake and Christmas cake out of it. I have a copy now and use it quite frequently.

Lillygran we went to Betty's in York a couple of years ago and it was fabulous. We went early evening and sat by the pianist.

I had a wonderful Welsh rarebit, followed by a luscious choccy cake washed down with a fabulous large glass of white wine - it's called Gurwertztraminer and is liking drinking flowers in a meadow.

I am coming on all weepy now.

Betty's is wonderful - and they also run the restaurant at the RHS Harlow Carr gardens near Harrogate. It's a long time since I've been there but while my aunt and uncle were alive they often treated me to lunch there.

I loved the Kardomah cafés. As you walked towards the shop the enticing aroma of the coffee wafted towards you, oh, it was irresistable? No coffee shop since has had that glorious smell. The girls in there wore brown cotton uniforms. And then the shops disappeared, but they would knock spots off Costa and Starbucks if they were still around today.

Agus there is a Be-ro website with lots of recipes if you do a Google search. I couldn't find a coconut flan but there's a tasty sounding recipe for coconut meringue slices which I'm now going to have to try!

you could bid for this one

I've got that one and I still use it . It's a bit tattier. I use the cover as a book mark as it's loose. My mother gave it to me when I got married. My best friends father, a keen Cook, gave me Mastering the Art of French cooking and my best friend gave me The Paupers Cookbook. All eventualities covered.

Thank you Roses and Yogagirl I can't remember if evaporated milk was involved. No doubt my only interest was, when will it be ready .

Never thought it might be on google. What a great find and a trip down memory lane. Think I will give the coconut meringue slices a go too.

I enjoy a nostalgic visit to Miss Cranston's Tea Room when I go into town.

Miss Cranston's Tea Room, what a great name. Are you in Scotland? Don't know why, but it sounds like it may be Scottish.
Can't find the Be-Ro cookbook, so either it was thrown out at some point, or one of the DC pinched it.I know for a fact that they pinched my [very old] recipe book from The Potato Marketing Board [ a free booklet] and the same thing from the Cheese Marketing Board [or was it egg?]I still use an old Mrs Beeton cookbook as well as all the newer ones [but confess that I don't use them a lot.]When we first got married, my DH used to request bread pudding [not bread and butter pud, although he likes that as well.]I had never heard of it.His Mother gave me the recipe, and made well, it is very, very yummy.

Miss Cranston's Tearooms - a gem in Glasgow, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Ah * mcem*'beat me to it . I live on the outskirts of Glasgow Roses Miss Cranston's is a lovely old fashioned tearoom complete with white linen table covers, waitresses in uniform and cake stands plus the interior is designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. It is also called The Willow Tearooms.
Catherine Cranston was a major patron of Mackintosh .

I love orange drizzle cake. There is a great recipe here www.wordstothewise.co.uk/blog/my-favourite-cake-recipe-orange-drizzle-cake