Eating for England by Nigel Slater

Author:Nigel Slater [ Slater, Nigel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-00-737004-7
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2007-07-26T16:00:00+00:00

Pontefract Cakes

Not in fact a cake, but a flat disc, shiny and black as a top hat, flavoured with liquorice and aniseed. According to Laura Mason and Catherine Brown writing in A Taste of Britain, the first mention of these chewy discs was in 1760, when an apothecary in the West Yorkshire town, George Dunhill, added sugar to the juice of the local liquorice root. In 1893 there were eleven manufacturers of the Pontefract cake.

Rather beautiful, like seals of black wax, these discs still have enough of a following to keep at least one company in business, though I can’t help feeling a little sad that they are no longer made with locally grown liquorice.

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