I reckon Chorley Cake. You?
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Whats best? Eccles Cake or Chorley Cake?
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Posted 2 years ago #
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Chorley for me to!
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Chorley defo.
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I'll go with Chorley too. Having lived in Eccles, I know nothing good can ever come from that god-forsaken hole
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I love a nice puffy Eccles cake but Chorley cake is completely unknown to me. Wikipedia reckons it's like an Eccles cake but you eat it with a slice of cheese? In which case, are you all trying to commit suicide by heart disease?!
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Never heard of a chorley cake FFS - oddly enough pretty hard to get hold of in Chorley ...do Halls make them?
They are both farily cr@p IMHO
PS live in ChorleyAwaits cries of hersey from the other locals.
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I live in Chorley and prefer Eccles cakes. I like the puffy pastry. Chorley cakes are like Eccles cakes but with normal stodgy pastry. Not tried them with Cheese, but most people I know eat them with butter, like a scone.
Neither are 'best', it's what you prefer. Maybe I should try a Chorley cake with Marmite, that might be interesting....
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Eccles every time. Only ever had Chorley once. The shops never sell it here. So Eccles by default.
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I wasn't sure of the difference, but if it's the puff pastry then ECCLES RA RA!
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Eccles and Chorleys are for pansies if you want a real tooth aching heart stopping cake it has to be Sly Cake
http://www.cookitsimply.com/recipe-0010-027y84.html
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A very good Eccles cake beats any Chorley cake IMHO, trouble is there are not many good Eccles cakes around so I would usually go for a Chorley cake....however Lardy Cake beats the lot!
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Eccles cakes should be eaten with butter on top, or in a dish covered with Bird's Custard. Chorley cakes are sugared on top, and are made with flaky (aka puff) pastry. Wife used to live right opposite Joe Hall's, so we consider ourselves experts!
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Wikipedia mentions something called a Sad Cake - sounds like a monster Chorley Cake!
BTW, Chorley services on the motorway sells Chorley Cakes. Mmmm...
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however Lardy Cake beats the lot!
With you there!
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nothing good can ever come from that god-forsaken hole
I disagree, I ran my 5000m pb there, Eccles that is!
Favourite cakes as well!
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Chorley cake everytime. There's something about the thick, stodgy pastry that just goes better with the sticky raisin filling. Also never ever dreamt of putting cheese on one. My grandma used to butter them though
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They are both mighty treats. It's a broad church and there's room for all.
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ChatsworthMusters - Member
Eccles cakes should be eaten with butter on top, or in a dish covered with Bird's Custard. Chorley cakes are sugared on top, and are made with flaky (aka puff) pastry. Wife used to live right opposite Joe Hall's, so we consider ourselves experts!You sure about that?
All the Eccles cakes I have eaten (and its a lot, which goes some way to explain my waistline) have been made with Puff pastry and the Chorley cakes were dry stodgy things that would have been vastly improved by cream or custardPosted 2 years ago # -
Chorly cakes with LOADS of butter spread on them
and Junkyard, you should be ashamed.
Remind me and i'll bring some to the Ton's STW ride. it sounds like some folk (including you) need educating in the excellence of the North of England grub.
Should I bring some black puddings as well?
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and a wigan kebab?
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however Lardy Cake beats the lot!
With you there!
Damn straight, a nice syrupy Lardy cake FTW!
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Junkyard = Traitor
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In the interests of scientific research, I have just purchased one of each and done a test. Firstly, Mr Overshoot is correct - Eccles Cakes are the ones with the puffy type pastry. Secondly, Eccles cakes have more dead flies in them. Thirdly, they were kinda both lovely in their own way. I need to repeat the test just to be sure...
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snowslave did you butter the Chorley cake?
makes a load of difference.
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ChatsworthMusters, consider yourself an expert by all means, but you have the two the wrong way round. Chorley cakes are generally consumed buttered.
To confuse you even more, the Chorley cake factory is down the road, in Eccleston....
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I buttered both, just like MBR insists on using the same tyres for all bike tests I think
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Thanks for that snowslave, so what was this about you being an expert ChatsworthMusters
IMO the reason you have to butter the Chorley cake is to make it nearly as good as the Eccles cake
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Chelsea buns, dahling! Mmmmm cinnamon.
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Eccles cakes have more dead flies in them
From the works canteen Steve? I'm not sure the dead flies are just confined to the eccles cakes there so I think dead flies can be removed from the "research".
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Well I've never buttered a Chorley cake. Are you talking about the rather large thin flat cakes, or the somehwat smaller but deeper cakes with sugar on the top. Eccles cakes are of the small and deep shape, but no sugar on top, ideal for butter.
Could be we're talking about lots of variations on a theme here. How many varieties of Cheddar cheese are there?
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Working from home Dave, so proper Mancunian Eccles cakes, from ermmm Ardwick. Oh, and for the record, the Chorley cakes were from Burnley.
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OK, here is an eccles cake
And here is a chorley cake
Biro is included to give a sense of scale. Note, Eccles cake is fat and is made of puff pastry. Chorley cake is flatter, not puff pastry. Dead fly count for an Eccles cake accounts for 40% of ingredients. For Chorley cake it accounts for only 27%. I've not put them on the scales, but I'd say the Chorley cakes are defo heavier.
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Good work snowslave, I'm hungry now
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Snowslave, I admire your dedication to this subject
Clearly the Chorley cake is far superior but Glovers bakery do the best ones - I think yours is actually a Burnley cake
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So what are the thin flat ones, approx twice the diameter of those shown?
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