Eccles cake

Salford

More pastry than cake, this is so sinfully tempting that the made from flaky pastry filled puritanical Oliver Cromwell with dried fruits and spices, threatened prison for anyone and topped with a sprinkling found eating one. By 1818, of sugar before baking. It they were so popular that they dates back to the 17th century, were exported to America and legend has it they were and the West Indies.