Does anybody remember

Love love love Sally Luns!

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!!

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

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 ?

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.

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.

Sorry, posted too soon:

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

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.

Lardy cake

There are bilberries all over the country, on heathland, moorland, mountainsides etc.
However, they are very tiny and it takes a long time to pick enough for a tart or pie.

I haven't picked any for years.

I used to love bilberry pie,not heard of them for years, are they a west Yorkshire berry, ? i lived in WY years ago, and have not seen any since i left,i thought the name had probably just been changed

I saw a lardy cake in a village shop today. Looked so gorgeous. All shiny, sugary and crispy. Luckily daughter was with me and dragged me out of the shop before I caved in and bought one.

I associate lardy cake with Wiltshire, too. Delicious and incredibly unhealthy.

Supermum48: not the best post to read at the end of Good Friday - I'm starving! But I have lost half a stone over Lent.

Lemon buns - Elizabeth Botham's bakery in Whitby still makes them, we always buy some when we go there.

One of our local bakeries, sadly it closed many years ago, used to make Russian slices from the previous day's left over cakes. They were delicious.

Anyone remember Kunzel cakes? Chocolate case, a bit of sponge at the base and topped with buttercream... I could just eat one now!

I adored bilberry tart. Haven’t had it for years!!! So much nicer than any other fruit tart ever!

I cannot recognize the description of Sally Lunn's either GROWINGOLDDISGRACEFULLY. I've only tried the sweet ones in Bath so must go back and sample the others!
Dough cakes and lardy cakes in Wiltshire. Otherwise 'penny' buns and iced fingers. I don't remember any of the others mentioned except the mini Hovis - loved those.

Last time I had Lardy cake was from a food festival three or four years ago, tasted nice & I enjoyed it but was not quite as my memory told me it should be. Probably as 00mam00 said, not quite so lardy now.

Curd tarts for me, always have to buy at least three one when I go back to the UK.
I remember the small hovis loaves as well. In the late 60s we had a baker who came round in his van on a Sunday morning, he used to shout "hot bread" and we had it for breakfast still warm from the oven - delicious.

Picking winberries is very popular in the Brecon Beacons where I live. Young lads collect and sell them for pocket money.

I thought that I had posted about saffron loaf (known locally as 'dough cake'), spread with butter, but my post isn't on here.

Perhaps it's on another thread, oh dear!

Growing up in Yorkshire used to love bilberry tarts,but never heard the term whinberry before, until just now.

You can still get lardy cake, but no where near as lardy as I remember them, with lovely crunchy bits where the sugar caramelised. Glazed ring doughnuts seem to have disappeared.

I used to buy Day old cakes from a local baker very cheap in the 50s on my way home from Saturday morning pics.

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