Our British friend Julie arrived in Fayette in early June for an extended visit, bringing gifts of a historic and consumable nature — Eccles Cakes — along with a recipe and written history of this ...

Eccles cakes, like Chelsea buns, Bath buns, and Bakewell tarts, are a type of British baked good with an eponymic place of origin. Eccles is a town on the outskirts of Manchester that's thought to ...

A SPATE of Merseyside fires have been triggered by Eccles cakes, firefighters revealed. The small round pastries have caused at least three blazes in recent weeks after attempts to warm them up went ...

SWEET-toothed Crosby people have been warned after a spate of fires were caused by reheating Eccles cakes. Firefighters issued the caution after the pastries were blamed for at least three blazes in ...

A questionable decision involving cake has left bosses at supermarket giant Walmart red-faced amid the ongoing Confederate flag row in the United States. The megastore chain found itself in hot water ...

I MIGHT be in trouble for writing this month’s column. Why? The War of the Roses that today still causes some sour relations between the two counties. Us Yorkshire folks still haven’t forgiven the ...

To start the Eccles cakes, melt the butter in a saucepan over a medium heat, then add the sugar and heat until the mixture begins to bubble. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the currants, ...

Chef Stephen Harris opened The Sportsman, in Seasalter, Kent, in 1999. His ‘grotty rundown pub by the sea’, as he once called it, has since won a Michelin star and been crowned National Restaurant of ...

When my dear dad died, my mum, three siblings and I thought long and hard how best to reflect his life at his funeral. In the end, we decided to hand out recipe cards for his signature Welsh rarebit.