reference: wells-1890
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- Abernethy Biscuits
Now made as a medium to low bake biscuit of coarse wheat flour with salt and sugar typically 2¾ins diameter x 3/16ins thick, impressed with indented dots. Some ...
- Albert Cakes
Tray-bake sponge cake with currants.
- Bath Olivers
Very low bake white wheatflour biscuits, slightly raised with yeast, unsweetened and lightly salted, typically 3ins diameter and ¼ins thick with prick-marks all...
- Bride Cake
Old term for wedding cake, known at least since around 1550.
- Congress Tarts
Congress, or Congress Curd, tarts are pastry cases filled with a confection containing ground almonds, or, occasionally, other ground material such as ground ri...
- Digestive Biscuits
Now a semi-sweet medium-to-high bake biscuit of sweetened and salted coarse wholemeal wheat flour. Typically 2¾ins diameter x ¼ins thick, impressed with two rin...
- Madeira Cake
Semi-dense plain sponge cake with a small admixture of lemon, usually formed as a slab.
- Puff Pastry
Pastry prepared from alternating layers of fat and dough; upon baking steam accumulates between the dough layers and causes them to expand, forming large spaces...
- Saffron Dinger
Suggared saffron buns associated with Lowestoft. Known only from news reports of 2017 explaining their origin in the 1950s. See Tea-Treat Buns, saffron...
- Scarborough Water Cakes
Rich, soft, cinnamon flavoured biscuits.
- Thin Arrowroot
Thin, circular (c3ins) sweet biscuit, usually with a slightly scalloped edge and incised decoration. Medium bake. Made from white wheatflour with a small admixt...
- York Biscuits
Plain, slightly sweetened, slightly raised, white wheatflour biscuits. c¼ ins thick.
- Yorkshire Tea Cakes
An enriched small bread-cake. More-or-less identical to the product generally known in England as 'teacakes' before the Fruited Teacake became universal.