Opentopia Directory Encyclopedia Tools

Eccles cake

Encyclopedia : E : EC : ECC : Eccles cake


A freshly baked Eccles cake, from Bettys café.
Enlarge
A freshly baked Eccles cake, from Bettys café.

An Eccles cake is a small, round cake filled with currants. It is made with flaky pastry, enriched with butter. It is named after the English town of Eccles, near Manchester. Other names for the Eccles cake include the colloquial term Squashed Fly Cake due to the nature of the currants that it contains.

External links

 


From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.

Search Titles
0123456789
ABCDEFGHIJ
KLMNOPQRST
UVWXYZ?

E-mail this article to:

Personal Message: