Comments on: Yorkshire Teacakes

By: Jane Thomas

Jane Thomas — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:43:00 +0000

My teacakes use bread flour, and a mix of currants and sultanas, and deffinitely a little mixed peel. I also shape them straight after the first kneeding and bake after just one rise, otherwise the fruit swells too much. Not sure if it’s a genuine Yorkshire recipe, but I sell about 50 a day on my North Yorkshire market stall, so they go down well with Yorkshire folk.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:54:00 +0000

I´m from Yorkshire, not Lancashire, and I have known the term Breadcakes to be used a lot in the area I came from.

By: Abartram32

Abartram32 — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:34:00 +0000

John B i think the reason there isn’t a recipe for yorkshire bread cakes is because I have never known bread rolls to be called bread cakes in Yorkshire! Think breadcakes is from Lancashire! I have only known bread rolls in Yorkshire called bread rolls or bread buns, and as far as I know they are made form a basic white loaf recipe but just made into buns rather than a loaf

By: Eliza

Eliza — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 10:51:01 +0000

Oven Bottom Muffins were their original name but it is rarely used among the younger generation, sometimes you will find them called this in the older style bakeries only – this born and bred Yorkshire girl can tell you most people now utilise the breadcakes.

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 10:23:00 +0000

bread rolls baked in the bottom of the oven are called oven bottom muffins – according to my Yorkshire mum anyway!

By: Baz

Baz — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:45:19 +0000

Just tried this recipe, inexpensive and tasty!

By: Eliza

Eliza — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:11:32 +0000

My Grandfather always made the most delightful Breadcakes, but I am afraid to say it died with him. To be perfectly honest these days the term is simply a Yorkshire name for bread rolls baked in the bottom of the oven. I am sure someone out there must have an original recipe but I am afraid its not me.

If I ever re-create them you will be the first to know.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:42:22 +0000

So why is there no recipe for Yorkshire breadcakes on the whole of the internet, and no references other than eg above, where reference is only made to it in the negative= ‘That this is not like a breadcake’ as if everyone in the world is born with the knowledge of breadcake baking?
Perhaps there is some dark Yorkshire conspiracy to keep the recipe secret- especially from me?!Please take pity and dispell my growing paranoia and let me into the secret so that I can enjoy the heavenly taste of a proper bacon and tomato sandwich as God (not a Yorkshireman- but aspires to be one) intended.

By: cookeaze

cookeaze — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:10:54 +0000

Very simple and inexpensive. I definitely plan to try this sometime soon. Thank you!