Welsh cakes v pancakes
1the vagaries of the ecclesiastical calendar have led to shrove Tuesday being on...St David's day - given the choice which is it pancakes or Welsh cakes?!
I choose bothCathedralCounty wrote: February 23rd, 2022, 1:39 pm the vagaries of the ecclesiastical calendar have led to shrove Tuesday being on...St David's day - given the choice which is it pancakes or Welsh cakes?!
That's what I was going to say. I guess that's because we are not only older but also wiser.OLDCROMWELLIAN wrote: February 23rd, 2022, 4:02 pmI choose bothCathedralCounty wrote: February 23rd, 2022, 1:39 pm the vagaries of the ecclesiastical calendar have led to shrove Tuesday being on...St David's day - given the choice which is it pancakes or Welsh cakes?!
Don’t know about the wiser bit Brendan. Older yes, but…..I asked Mrs P that very question a few hours ago, without any hesitation she said pancakes. I agree with OC and you, I’d like both.Stan A. Einstein wrote: February 23rd, 2022, 6:37 pmThat's what I was going to say. I guess that's because we are not only older but also wiser.OLDCROMWELLIAN wrote: February 23rd, 2022, 4:02 pmI choose bothCathedralCounty wrote: February 23rd, 2022, 1:39 pm the vagaries of the ecclesiastical calendar have led to shrove Tuesday being on...St David's day - given the choice which is it pancakes or Welsh cakes?!
Yet the original name is picau ar y maen. i.e small baked cakes or sweet breads cooked on a stone. Therefore the naming of them as bakestones is more accurate than the anglicised description of Welsh cakes.pembsexile wrote: February 23rd, 2022, 9:33 pmDon’t know about the wiser bit Brendan. Older yes, but…..I asked Mrs P that very question a few hours ago, without any hesitation she said pancakes. I agree with OC and you, I’d like both.Stan A. Einstein wrote: February 23rd, 2022, 6:37 pmThat's what I was going to say. I guess that's because we are not only older but also wiser.OLDCROMWELLIAN wrote: February 23rd, 2022, 4:02 pmI choose bothCathedralCounty wrote: February 23rd, 2022, 1:39 pm the vagaries of the ecclesiastical calendar have led to shrove Tuesday being on...St David's day - given the choice which is it pancakes or Welsh cakes?!
Point of note - I have never heard anyone from Newport call them Welsh cakes. My wife and kids take the pi*** out of me because I was brought up in Newport and we called them bakestones. I still do. Before anyone mentions it, I know that Bakestone is what they are baked on.
Cheers buddy, didn’t know that. I shall take great delight in telling my kids that today.OLDCROMWELLIAN wrote: February 23rd, 2022, 11:19 pmYet the original name is picau ar y maen. i.e small baked cakes or sweet breads cooked on a stone. Therefore the naming of them as bakestones is more accurate than the anglicised description of Welsh cakes.pembsexile wrote: February 23rd, 2022, 9:33 pmDon’t know about the wiser bit Brendan. Older yes, but…..I asked Mrs P that very question a few hours ago, without any hesitation she said pancakes. I agree with OC and you, I’d like both.Stan A. Einstein wrote: February 23rd, 2022, 6:37 pmThat's what I was going to say. I guess that's because we are not only older but also wiser.OLDCROMWELLIAN wrote: February 23rd, 2022, 4:02 pmI choose bothCathedralCounty wrote: February 23rd, 2022, 1:39 pm the vagaries of the ecclesiastical calendar have led to shrove Tuesday being on...St David's day - given the choice which is it pancakes or Welsh cakes?!
Point of note - I have never heard anyone from Newport call them Welsh cakes. My wife and kids take the pi*** out of me because I was brought up in Newport and we called them bakestones. I still do. Before anyone mentions it, I know that Bakestone is what they are baked on.
Even Wrexham fans are entitled to eat I suppose. How did your cooking of the 'speckled bread' turn out. Believe the soaking of the fruit in tea ( can even add a touch of rum to it ) overnight gives it it's distinctive flavour.mad norm wrote: February 24th, 2022, 9:03 am Bara Brith mentioned earlier...have been known to make some...recipe given to me by my cousin well into her eighties..she lives up a hill near Mold and her ol' man is a Wrexham fan
Well happy with results....I'll make another batch as I might sneak a drop of Grenadan run into it as well.OLDCROMWELLIAN wrote: February 24th, 2022, 9:20 amEven Wrexham fans are entitled to eat I suppose. How did your cooking of the 'speckled bread' turn out. Believe the soaking of the fruit in tea ( can even add a touch of rum to it ) overnight gives it it's distinctive flavour.mad norm wrote: February 24th, 2022, 9:03 am Bara Brith mentioned earlier...have been known to make some...recipe given to me by my cousin well into her eighties..she lives up a hill near Mold and her ol' man is a Wrexham fan
Everyone under 95 in Newport calls them Welsh cakes.pembsexile wrote: February 23rd, 2022, 9:33 pmDon’t know about the wiser bit Brendan. Older yes, but…..I asked Mrs P that very question a few hours ago, without any hesitation she said pancakes. I agree with OC and you, I’d like both.Stan A. Einstein wrote: February 23rd, 2022, 6:37 pmThat's what I was going to say. I guess that's because we are not only older but also wiser.OLDCROMWELLIAN wrote: February 23rd, 2022, 4:02 pmI choose bothCathedralCounty wrote: February 23rd, 2022, 1:39 pm the vagaries of the ecclesiastical calendar have led to shrove Tuesday being on...St David's day - given the choice which is it pancakes or Welsh cakes?!
Point of note - I have never heard anyone from Newport call them Welsh cakes. My wife and kids take the pi*** out of me because I was brought up in Newport and we called them bakestones. I still do. Before anyone mentions it, I know that Bakestone is what they are baked on.
Yes indeed after Cromwell Road I grew up on the same mean streets. Always called bakestones, made on a cast iron plate still in my possession liberated from Lysaghts in 1912.Exile 1976 wrote: February 24th, 2022, 5:19 pm They were bakestones when I was growing up on the mean streets of St Julians
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