A Banbury cake is a spiced, currant-filled, flat pastry cake similar to an Eccles cake An Eccles cake is a small, round cake filled with currants and made from puff pastry with butter and topped with demerara sugar, although it is more oval in shape. Once made and sold exclusively in Banbury Banbury is a market town and civil parish in the district of Cherwell in northern Oxfordshire, England, located on the River Cherwell. It lies 64 miles northwest of London, 38 miles (61 km) southeast of Birmingham, 27 miles (43 km) south of Coventry and 21 miles (34 km) north northwest of the county town of Oxford. The urban area, including, Oxfordshire Oxfordshire is a county in the South East England region, bordering on Northamptonshire (to the North East), Buckinghamshire (to the East), Berkshire (to the South), Wiltshire and Swindon (to the South West), Gloucestershire (to the West) and Warwickshire (to the North), England England ( /ˈɪŋɡlənd/ ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental Europe. Most of England, Banbury cakes have been made in the region to secret recipes since 1586 or earlier and there they are still made today, but not in such quantity. The cakes were once sent as far afield as Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent (the world's smallest), the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.N4 Neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor, and Papua New Guinea to the north,, India India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east, India has a coastline of 7,517 and America ^ b. English is the de facto language of American government and the sole language spoken at home by 80% of Americans age five and older. Spanish is the second most commonly spoken language.
Banbury Cakes were first made in the sixteenth century by Edward Welchman, whose shop was on Parsons Street.[1] In the late nineteenth century, the notorious refreshment rooms at Swindon railway station Swindon railway station is in the town of Swindon, Wiltshire, England. The station entrance is on Station Road, to the south of the line sold 'Banbury cakes and pork pies (obviously stale)'.[2][3]
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- ^ Little, Brian (2003). Banbury: A History. Chichester: Phillimore & Co. p. 27. ISBN The International Standard Book Number is a unique[clarification needed] numeric commercial book identifier based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering (SBN) code created by Gordon Foster, now Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Trinity College, Dublin,[clarification needed] for the booksellers and stationers W.H. Smith and others in 1966 1 86077 242 0.
- ^ MacDermot, E.T. (1931). History of the Great Western Railway, vol. II: 1863-1921. Paddington: Great Western Railway The Great Western Railway was a British railway company that linked London with the south west and west of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament in 1835, and ran its first trains three years later. It was engineered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel who chose a broad gauge of 7 ft 0+1⁄4 in (2,140 mm),. p. 409.
- ^ Booker, Frank (1985) [1977]. The Great Western Railway: A New History (2nd ed.). Newton Abbot: David & Charles David & Charles is a publisher specialising in illustrated non-fiction books. The company was founded in the small town of Newton Abbot, in Devon, UK, on 1 April 1960 by David St John Thomas and Charles Hadfield. It first made its name publishing titles on Britain's canals and railways. In Newton Abbot, they were based in the old railway. p. 107. ISBN The International Standard Book Number is a unique[clarification needed] numeric commercial book identifier based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering (SBN) code created by Gordon Foster, now Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Trinity College, Dublin,[clarification needed] for the booksellers and stationers W.H. Smith and others in 1966 0 946537 16 X.
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