Old fashioned cakes and other bakery items.

[PamperMoose]

I love cakes but I find a lot of cakes now are crammed full of other sweet items like biscuits or covered in them. It’s a bit much for me.

It made me wonder what old fashioned cakes, pastries and savoury bakery items that are hard to find now.

I miss really good gingerbread men. I know that they’re still available if not so readily, but they aren’t as gingery as they used to be. And what’s happened to cream horns.

My Mother used to love something called Paris buns. They’re rather like a scone scattering with sugar nibs. Are those still around?

What old fashioned bakery items do you miss?

@shellyleppard

Busted ! Devon Savouries shop !

You can get tiffin and cornflake cakes in Costa.

Where my ex lived we used to go to Muswell Hill and they had an old fashioned bakery or two there I’m sure.

I have never been so grateful for living in North Yorkshire, where Thomas the Baker does so many of these wonderful gooey cakes still. We're too far north for lardy cake, sadly though; I have wonderful memories of the lovely shop in Crewkerne that baked them daily and meant I went up a size in clothes when I lived there.

There used to be a bakery in Scarborough that did Russian slice, but I've not been there for ages, so don't know if they still do. And I would kill for a Japonnaise fancy, which I ate all the way through my first two pregnancies - yep, up another size in clothes then too.

Forgot the Domino cakes. I've been able to buy those in Austria!

Also a mention for ANZAC biscuits and the huge ginger lace ones that are on their way to being a flat brandy snap.

Closest thing if you can't get someone over 60 with the knack is Botham's in Whitby, imo.

Tiny Hovis!!
I'd forgotten. With salad. Nine of their mixed up salad nonsense we have now, all little separate piles and a hard boiled egg

This is a great thread. I have a thread on old style vegetarian food that is quite popular. All wholemeal pastry and lentils. No exotic ingredients allowed.
Must be some sweet food nostalgia about.
I remember bread pudding by the slice in a paper bag. Not bread and butter pudding.

You can always buck the trend and bake them again.

What’s school cake?

If you come to SE London I’m sure a chain of coffee shops/bakeries do Anzac biscuits.

Jennalong i worked in the one in market street!!!!! As soon as you mentioned faggots I knew 😂😂😂😂

SE London it is, then!

East London has a number of Tottenham cake and London cheesecake mongers...

You all need to come to Wiltshire for you holidays and visit Reeves, plus a few others.
https://www.reevethebaker.co.uk/our-shops/

Manchester tart
Rum Baba

My mum used to make bread pudding! She gave me a recipe but I lost it - I might have to check out the Sainted Delia (I inherited my mother's Delia Smith books and I suspect that she ripped it straight from there in the first place). There was always a tray of bread pudding around the place, using up the stale leftovers.

Seed cake made with caraway seeds, something the hobbits also liked.

When I was a child my mum used to get us iced fruit buns for long car journeys. The only place I can find them now is M&S, and we don't go there very often. However I have just placed my first Ocado order and I can get them through there! Very pleased.

You’ve reminded me, it does. DB and his family live in Hackney which is more trendy but the other parts with decent bakeries aren’t far!

To all those mentioning London cheesecake, Aldi sell these by a brand called Peacocks. Now, I've never had any sort other than these so they might not be authentic but they're blooming lovely. I mentioned them to my DM and she said they were called toenail cake when she was growing up.

I used to live near a Polish bakery in Streatham and the doughnuts still haunt my dreams- they were more beautiful than I can describe.
I make a lot of baked stuff because shop bought is mostly very disappointing.
I do miss a nice old fashioned apple turnover, I can't make them like I remember them.

In Bath I got bath buns and other delicacies from a local coffee shop/deli/bakery and they delivered to DB and his family over lockdown - they’d moved there temporarily.

https://bakingwithgranny.co.uk/recipe/school-cake/

RUM BABAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

You can NEVER find these now. I think there is a bakers in Rochester that does them but havent been there for many years so whether its still even there I dont know, dont even bother with the Bon Maman versions in supermarkets.

Back to my Princess Slices, I have a feeling that in East London they are (incorrectly) named as Tottenham slices. They are not. They are Princess Slices.

And yes, Reeve the Baker. Had me a lardy cake from there around Christmas, but as I said, much lower in lard and sugar than I remember from the big metal tray from when I very first had one.

Was that Pernets Patisserie? That was on the high road near the bus garage. Lovely cakes and sweet treats from there.

Oh I do know that. drools

I think Princess Slices/Tottenham cake might be the same thing, just regionally called different things.
<<ducks for cover>>

Yes, ducking - I'd say that is a wise move...

The Unique Sporting History Behind The UK's Tottenham Cake (thedailymeal.com)

Pink colouring from specific fruit plants in a specific Quaker graveyard...

First thing I ever "baked" - oh, and peppermint creams (no baking required)