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Definition of Eccles cake in English: Eccles cakenounˈɛk(ə)lz keɪk British A round flat cake of sweetened pastry filled with currants. Example sentencesExamples - Talking of pies, don't go to a chippie - go to a proper Northern bakery and get a custard or an Eccles cake while you are there.
- They continue to be indispensable ingredients for such items as spotted dick, Eccles cakes, and Scottish black bun.
- The problem with shop-bought Eccles cakes is they are often dry with pastry that sticks to the roof of your mouth and the filling is more stodge than fruit.
- Meanwhile, hopes of restoring a colourful mural of 100 years in the town's history, including bakers with trays of Eccles cakes, have hit a brick wall.
- With 20 minutes to wait for our coach home, we succumbed to the lure of an Eccles cake each and, as we stood eating them, a lovely lady on a nearby stall invited us to sit with her.
- We now sell sandwiches, ready meals, specialist jams, Eccles cakes, game - we are the cooked meat specialists!
- Quintessentially British and loved by everyone I know, Eccles cakes can't fail to impress if you serve them with a really good cheese as dessert.
- Sally Lunn's buns are perhaps not as well known as Bakewell tart, Richmond maids of honour and Eccles cakes but that is because they never appear outside their home town.
- By five o'clock I am on my second Eccles cake of the afternoon and still have to climb Mam Tor, the ‘shimmering mountain’, which rises 1500 feet above sea level.
- En route they have stopped to nibble their rucksack staples cheese and pickle sandwiches for two plus Eccles cakes for afters.
- And there's no bread in Diggory's shop, so the chubby baker has just tried to palm him off with some Eccles cakes.
- My server appeared and recited the specials for the night, but I already knew what I wanted: parsley salad with roasted bone marrow to start, then a whole Middlewhite boar, followed by a score of Eccles cakes.
Origin Named after the town of Eccles near Manchester, England. |