Breadcakes,

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sun 17 Aug, 2008 2:46 pm

Chrism wrote: ...also I live in the Midlands now where they're called cobs. I really enjoy going to the sandwhich shops for a 'cheese and ham salad in a breadcake please', the staff look at me as though I've just asked them to divide 7986 by 47. he he he A workmate of mine came from Wigan to Morley to deliver to a customer and stopped for lunch at Hillycroft chippy and asked for a "chip barm" needless to say they didn't understand him!

liits · Post by **liits** » Sun 17 Aug, 2008 3:39 pm

Seen recently on TV, some clap-trap about Pannatone. Slack's, on Crossgates Road, sold good old Bun Loaf years before this over-priced tosh got stuck in the teeth of the chattering classes!

FLOJO · Post by **FLOJO** » Sun 17 Aug, 2008 4:23 pm

arry awk wrote: Dead reet! Oven bottom cakes like dinner plates!These were stood on edge, by an open door to Cool-off.after baking.(had to be careful a marauding stray dog didn't nick 'emwhile ya weren't lookin!), EEEEh! they wo' luvly, still warm with real butter and jam as a 'samwidge'. ('Butties' hadn't 'arrived' from Liverpool, in those days!), or with a pennorth o'chips from<h>fishoil! Ah'm fair 'slavverin' as I write!Geordie!exile,Lass!Our version of that nonsense rhyme was;I went to the pictures termorra,I got a front seat at the back,A lady gi'e me a banana,I ate it and give her it back,I went round a straight,crooked corner,to see a dead donkey die,I gave me a kick in the bellyso I give it a poke in it's eye! When working at Waddingtons lunch times we would go to the bakery at Twaite Gate and get a pully cake with corned beef and piccallili in it,I think arry that is what you call oven bottom cake.`

arry_awk · Post by **arry_awk** » Sun 17 Aug, 2008 5:35 pm

Tha could be reight Flo! Altho I never heard one calleda Pully cake! Mebbe South Leeds fowk reckoned they looked likepulleys! Plenty of engineering, that end of town!

Post by **chameleon** » Sun 17 Aug, 2008 6:20 pm

eddie666 wrote: Ive had many an argument with our lass about the naming of certain breaded foods. She's from Oldham, Im from Cas...... everything thats round and made of bread she seems to either call a muffin or a barm. They aint got a clue o'er t'otherside.Sorry, but a muffin is them huge choclatey bun things you get from McDonalds.If its round, made of bread, contains sandwich type products, i.e butter, ham or other kinds of meat, its a break cake lol. Na, everybody over 30 knows Muffin lived at Lewis's and worked for Father Christmas!

sundowner · Post by **sundowner** » Sun 17 Aug, 2008 8:05 pm

Samson wrote: Penz,I would agree with you. When I lived in leeds my father used to refer to teacakes as the soft brown topped bun. He also loved currant teacakes toasted. Bread cakes were flatter and the bread was not as risen. They were a small version of the oven cake and used for sarnies. The oven cake was large and about 10 inches in diameter (The same as a stottie cake up here in the NE)My father, who was born in 1907, used to talk about Oven Bottom cakes - these may have been just oven cakes.Then again my brain may be addled! Hi Samson I have allways thought teacakes were made with a sweet dough that is with sugar. Breadcakes have no sugar in the mix i could be wrong .I have not seen oven cakes like my mam used to make for years, the size does not matter some were large some small.The flour used now will not make the same type of bread this is why bread does not last like it used to. Like most food today it has been messed about with. Ps lived in hunslet until i was seventeen never heard of a pully cake.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sun 17 Aug, 2008 8:08 pm

sundowner wrote: Samson wrote: Penz,I would agree with you. When I lived in leeds my father used to refer to teacakes as the soft brown topped bun. He also loved currant teacakes toasted. Bread cakes were flatter and the bread was not as risen. They were a small version of the oven cake and used for sarnies. The oven cake was large and about 10 inches in diameter (The same as a stottie cake up here in the NE)My father, who was born in 1907, used to talk about Oven Bottom cakes - these may have been just oven cakes.Then again my brain may be addled! Hi Samson I have allways thought teacakes were made with a sweet dough that is with sugar. Breadcakes have no sugar in the mix i could be wrong .I have not seen oven cakes like my mam used to make for years, the size does not matter some were large some small.The flour used now will not make the same type of bread this is why bread does not last like it used to. Like most food today it has been messed about with. Very true. It's about twenty years since my mam made her last breadcake - they were delicious on the day they were baked but not so good the day after.

compton · Post by **compton** » Sun 17 Aug, 2008 9:21 pm

I think many ex Burtons staff would agree that Granelli,s shop on Hudson rd. made some of the best breadcake sarnies in Leeds, why can,t we get them anymore, true breadcakes I mean, not soggy supemarket imposters.

Brandy · Post by **Brandy** » Sun 17 Aug, 2008 9:21 pm

tyke bhoy wrote: unless I'm mistaken this has been covered in depth already. However......... Breadcakes are the small flat cake with a hard crust. They don't rise as much because they are baked in the cooler bottom of the oven. yep your not far wrong tyke bhoy,twas the great breadcakegate debate of january this year i do belive,started by non other than SI. SEEhttp://www.secretleeds.com/forum/Messages.aspx ... Message=25

Si · Post by Si » Mon 18 Aug, 2008 9:18 am

Brandy wrote: tyke bhoy wrote: unless I'm mistaken this has been covered in depth already. However......... Breadcakes are the small flat cake with a hard crust. They don't rise as much because they are baked in the cooler bottom of the oven. yep your not far wrong tyke bhoy,twas the great breadcakegate debate of january this year i do belive,started by non other than SI. SEEhttp://www.secretleeds.com/forum/Messages.aspx ... Message=25 Oh no!!! Not the dreaded breadcakes again.............!