Banbury cake

A Banbury cake is a spiced, oval-shaped puff pastry filled with currants. Since the mid-19th century, Banbury cakes have grown increasingly similar to Eccles cakes, but the earlier versions were quite different from the modern pastry. Besides currants, the filling typically includes mixed peel, brown sugar, rum, and nutmeg. Banbury cakes are traditionally eaten with afternoon tea. Once made and sold exclusively in Banbury, England, Banbury cakes have been made in the region to secret recipes since 1586 and are still made there today, although not in such quantity. The cakes were once sent as far afield as Australia, the East Indies and America, normally in locally made wickerwork baskets. They were sold at rail station refreshment rooms in England. Banbury cakes were first made by Edward Welchman, whose shop was on Parsons Street.

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