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allotmentgirl
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I have had my lunch in the cafe on the square today and I have to say it was absolutely brilliant value for money.My friend and myself had a lovely warm baguette sandwich each and a salad and chips to share and two great big piping hot brews of tea and it was about £5.50 each (not sure exactly cos she paid) . There was tones of food and it was lovely and fresh and home made. The atmosphere in there was lively friendly chatty and homely . I don't eat out often but this was such amazing value I will go in again I am sure .Give it a try.
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Sunray10
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Posted - 05/03/2011 : 13:43
Kunzle cakes, wow, yes moh those bring back memories for me. Can you still get them, were they similar to cup cakes ?
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Bradders
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Posted - 05/03/2011 : 14:03
Not really , they were cubes of cake with pastel coloured icing , usually with "white stuff " inder it ! (oh and there was a brown one too)
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Sunray10
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Posted - 05/03/2011 : 14:18
That reminds me a bit of Bakewell tart and Battenburg. Oh scrumptous.
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Callunna
Revolving Grey Blob
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Posted - 06/03/2011 : 10:18
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Sunray10 wrote:
... were they similar to cup cakes ?
Cup cakes. We used to call them buns till a few years ago. Another example of Americanisms taking over.
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panbiker
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Posted - 06/03/2011 : 10:48
I'm with you on this one Cally, a bun is a bun. It might be iced with a cherry on top or have a a pair of wings and turned into a fairy but it is still a bun.
I believe there is no such thing as a Bakewell Tart, although it looks like a tart with no lid on, it should be called a Bakewell Pie.
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Posted - 06/03/2011 : 11:01
TIZER!!!! Yesssss!! I can still get up your nose Ray! Less of this talk of Vimto and Sarsparilla and Dandelion & Burdock. Isn't Vimto something you clean the toilet bowl with, and Sarsparilla is a town in one of those spaghetti westerns, and D&B is for dandies. (Actually, I think Tizer - the drink, that is - was probably made from radioactive chemicals spun off from the atom bomb programme.)
To buns, a bun to me is a hemispherical bread-type food item, its upper parts covered with icing and with a half cherry located exactly on the top. A bit like the northern hemisphere of the Earth with a giant cherry at the North Pole (there really is a giant cherry there but the arctic explorers haven't been able to find it yet). A cup cake is a dainty little cake, hardly a mouthful.
Must stop drinking these two-litre bottles of Tizer....
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Posted - 06/03/2011 : 11:08
Yep, you sound a bit HYPER Tiz. Glad to know there are other bun experts out there. A sipn of from making buns is that you can use the same trays for making Yorkshire Pud's. Will be doing that myself later on for tea. No buns to follow but homemade rhubarb pie with cream, yum!
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thomo
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Posted - 06/03/2011 : 12:09
Same here Ian, I also am Chef of the day, there will not however be a "pudding" anyone eating one of my Sunday dinners has no room left.
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panbiker
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Posted - 06/03/2011 : 12:25
O.K at that Thomo, I have posted my plans in the tea topic.
To get back to the cafe thread. I remember when I used to go in as a teenager, the fruitmachine used to pay out in tokens that you could spend over the counter. Magic if you dropped the jackpot, free Vimto and buns all week! sometimes pushed the boat out and had hot chocolate.
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Sunray10
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Posted - 06/03/2011 : 14:11
Tizer, we were trying to keep that secret, but you found us out in the end. I like those little round cherry bakewells that are made by Mr K, you know the ones. There have a nice soft centre - rather like Tizer !!
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gus
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Posted - 07/03/2011 : 11:45
Called into the "Cafe on the Square " this morning, for a takeaway cup of tea and two rounds of toast, freshly made by Keith Mitchell the owner of the Cafe. I paid the princely sum of £1.30 for the takeaway, which i enjoyed at my allotment, before grafting.!! I decided to post these photos of the Cafe and Keith with his young assistant,The cafe has changed very little over the years, a few different owners perhaps, but they have all kept the traditional, good wholesome food, and very reasonable prices ethic, I remember in the early sixties we called it the Vimto cafe, if anyone can remember there were Vimto advertising signs all around the front windows, this was the only signage i`m sure hence the name, 
Gus
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moh
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Posted - 07/03/2011 : 13:36
Kunzle cakes were differenct colours, pink, yeallow, green etc. The outer casing was of chocolate with a bit of cake in the bottom then coloured butter cream on top and finally a small sweet in a matching colour in the cemtre.. They are no longer available, there was a campaign on radio two a few years back by Sarah Kennedy to bring them back, but nothing came of it.
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tripps
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Posted - 07/03/2011 : 14:14
I remember cup cakes as a fairly simple affair in a bun case with soft icing fully covering the top of the case and level with it. There seems to have been a culture shift here, and the name now refers to its American cousin which of course is much larger, and has very fancy decoration. I found this ref on the BBC....
"After Carrie Bradshaw bit into a cupcake on Sex and the City, it wasn't long before exquisitely frosted fondants appeared on high streets around the world. What is it about these pretty little cakes?"
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Posted - 07/03/2011 : 21:00
Good photo of Keith and assistant at The Cafe on the Square, Gus. He does chocolate cupcakes and fairy cakes amongst other cakes, and all very nice too. Well done Keith, keep it up.
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Tizer
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Posted - 08/03/2011 : 10:36
I wonder what you would have got if you'd asked for `exquisitely frosted fondants' in the cafe in the 1950s?
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