A little while back I was sent a selection of Butlers Farmhouse Cheese to review. As a self confessed cheese-aholic this was one product review I eagerly looked forward to receiving. I wasn’t disappointed. The Butler family first began making farmhouse cheese in 1932. Run by the third generation of Butlers, the company has become [...]
Hot Cakes It is Salford’s sachertorte, Bury’s brioche, Bolton’s baklava and Chorlton’s croissant. It is the Eccles cake, a deceptively simple Manchester-made confection that ranks with the world’s best baked goods. In 1793 James Birch’s shop on the corner of Vicarage Road in Eccles began selling small, flat, raisin-filled cakes. They sold, quite literally, like [...]
