So... do the Welsh not share, or the English not like em???

[Flamesparrow]

Welsh DH, living in Bournemouth... Every few months I might come across a supermarket selling Welsh butter - but they pretty much all sell Irish and Somerset. You can't buy Welsh cakes anywhere here, yet you can get all kind of American style cakey things. Its not like you need a little cake shop to get em in Wales - Tescos sell em, so surely they could ship a few through the rest of the UK???

Its sad, we haven't got much money right now, so his valentine's present was butter .

Soooo... why is it?? Are the Welsh just very possesive over their butter and cakes, or do shops think there is no market for it in non-Wales???

i couldn't live without my welsh cakes at the thought of not being able to get them! I will never move out of wales if that is the case We are not possesive and i would gladly share

Doesn't M & S do Welsh Cakes?

welsh cakes for sale in my Sainsburys (dorset)

but no butter - we do our own very successfully you know

We live near Wales and it amuses me to get home from Tesco and find I have bought "Welsh" milk. Looks and tastes exactly like English milk funnily enough. Why does Welsh milk and other every day products have to be advertised a such? Surely in Wales, they don't buy bottles of "English" milk?

local pride lonelymum

we have loads of somerset/dorset cream, milk, butter etc in our local supermarkets

Lol - you try tellin him that we do our own butter successfully .

Think I'm going to have to roam the area trying out different sainsburys and M&S for welsh cakes... maybe its like the oreos - only a few sell them!

flamesparrow if you have no luck im sure i could pop a few in the post

god whats he like when he goes abroad?

Flamesparrow, I resort to making them - none for sale in Oxford. They are dead easy to make and much nicer when hot, too. My mother used to make them and I reached quite an advanced age before I ever ate a cold Welsh cake. We used to snaffle them as they came out of the pan.

Lol - Its not needed all the time, just one of those home comfort things that he misses... a bit like I'd probably be about Dorset Knobs

That would be much more logical OM... I'm just lazy . They are sooo much nicer hot - the one thing that always sticks in my head about Glastonbury festival - there was a welsh cake stall... all hot and covered in sugar

Lonelymum, your welsh milk comment makes me laugh. I'm an English girl living in Wales, and often wonder why I can't have English Milk! I don't mind where its from at all.

I work in the Customer Service Dept at Morrisons and it really makes me laugh how snooty the Welsh get about labelling of things and about the welsh language. We recently changed from Safeway and we got loads of welsh language activists complaining that we had the English names first on the aisles then the welsh names! ffs its Cardiff, virtually no-one speaks Welsh! We also get the odd complaint letter in Welsh but as none of us can speak it, we usually file it in the bin. We are a predominantly English speaking country live with it!

To get to the question though, I think it's that shops don't think there is a market for Welsh (and Scottish too) stuff outside Wales or Scotland. Try Asda though, they seem to do more regional stuff.

Ah but is the welsh butter he loves so much really welsh after all???

dorset knobs are grim-ola

C'mon flamesparrow, hardly any ingredients (and I think a frying pan is an OK substitute for a bakestone!)

Ingredients
225g/8oz self-raising flour, sieved
110g/4oz (preferably Welsh) salted butter
1 egg
handful of sultanas
milk, if needed
85g/3oz caster sugar
extra butter, for greasing

Method

1. Rub the fat into the sieved flour to make breadcrumbs. Add the sugar, dried fruit and then the egg. Mix to combine, then form a ball of dough, using a splash of milk if needed.
2. Roll out the pastry until it is a 5mm/¼in thick and cut into rounds with a 7.5-10cm/3-4in fluted cutter.
3. You now need a bakestone or a heavy iron griddle. Rub it with butter and wipe the excess away. Put it on to a direct heat and wait until it heats up, place the Welsh cakes on the griddle, turning once. They need about 2-3 minutes each side. Each side needs to be caramel brown before turning although some people I know like them almost burnt.
4. Remove from the pan and dust with caster sugar while still warm. Some people leave out the dried fruit, and split them when cool and sandwich them together with jam.

If you really want to give your dh a treat I suggest Tregroes waffles - the ones covered in belgian chocolate are positively evilly (made up word) delicious. I can't do a link but if you goggle Tregroes waffles you can see. My dh ordered loads and I had to put them in the outside shed so it was harder to get to them otherwise I'd be the size of a house.

Wot, Welsh cakes with no lard in them? Iesu mawr!

Try very hard to resist Hausfrau, they are of the devil. I've just been contemplating ordering some more when I know there are loads in our shed. What's that about?!

My grandmother won prizes for her welsh cakes. Sigh

Richt, outside! Scrap, now!

Bakestones at 10 paces