Does anybody remember

Lardy cake

Northerngirl28 Do you remember the little fun fair on the Chevin, with the Flying Chairs? There was also an old WW1 tank half buried down the slope.
We used to go to the cafe next to the fair but the place we picked bilberries was different.

The train is still working up to teh Chevin.

Sorry, posted too soon:

tiny Hovis loaves for 2d and take me to feed the ducks with it!

thought I’d posted the rest of my post, but it seems not!

I remember my Great Aunt Nan (Kathleen Ann), I called her Nanny, coming over to England from USA. She would buy a tiny Hovis loaf for 2d and take me to feed the ducks with it. Would have been late 60s.
I also loved lardy cake. The last time I bought it was about 15 years ago, from Waitrose in High Barnet. I was just thinking the other day that I hadn’t seen any recently.

I remember collecting bilberries up north with mum and her nana. I would roly poly down the hill with dandelions and daisies and mum made a bilberry pie with hot custard.

When I was a teenager, I had a dog, a collie-cross that I used to take with me what I was bilberrying. She loved bilberries, and while I was filling a jar, she would be daintily picking her own of the bushes to eat there and then ?

Oh yes Bluecat, I had forgotton Kunzel cakes. Ate them at my friends house - thought she was very posh!

I have never heard of these cakes either. I had to bake with my mother on a Saturday, a sandwich cake, some iced buns and maybe an apple pie for Sunday, the only day we had a pudding. I remember occasionally baking jam tarts and lemon meringue pie with the filling from one of those packets.

When relatives came to visit, maybe a couple of times a year she would buy cakes which we were not allowed to ask for. If they did not want them we could have one. Oh the bliss of chocolate eclairs, meringues or cream horns. I think the said relatives often sensed our collective will that forced them not to eat the cakes!!

Love love love Sally Luns!