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DRIPPING CAKE OR LARDY CAKE

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Astonian

gone but not forgotten
dripping cakes or larder cakes
do you remember where you used to buy yours from for a penny
i got mine from the bakery on the corner of vicage rd and th corner of victoria rd whilst waiting for the dray men bring back the big shire horses with there trophy badges on to the stables more or less across from the shop and also if they walked up the portland rd
the man whom ever brought the horse back to the stables coming from lichfield rd end would walk up the hill and go straight to the
care takers garden wall where the child would feed the horse from
over there garden wall the bakery used to charge 3d but
further down the rd on the corner of upper thomas st and the corner from victoria rd and the queens head the cake shop sold there red hot dripper for 1 d penny also at spring hill you could get it
across from the coach and horses and alibone the drapers shop you could get it for 1d in my mind you cannot get the bread pudding slice
today just like how mother used to make it
the old dripper was lovely even thou it weighted you down after eating it
have a nice day every body best wishes astonion ;;;
 
To young to ever have bought them for a penny but yes I recall them fondly - would drive the dieticians mad in this day and age.

Bread pudding was my midday break when at Lucas GHS (do you remember midday breaks?). I used to ask for the corner piece as I liked the crunchiness.
 
I still buy lardy cake but i cant get it for a penny,and i get terrible indigestion after ive eaten it and yes the crunchy end bit was the best
 
Tis headed History and Nostalgia which is what it is surely?
 
There was a confectioner's in Worcester, fairly close to the Midland Red terminus by the river, where we used to buy our Lardy Cakes when we went fishing there. This was a long time ago and the place has probably been long gone now, We would get off the Red from Brum...my dad would buy the cakes... and we would catch another bus at the stop just there, to go upstream a short distance to Bevere. A Lardy Cake was a nice addition to lunch. There is a weir, an island and locks at Bevere and I seem to recall that the BAA had a streatch of riverbank there. It was good fishing below the weir sometimes. It all seems too delightfully simple to have been true now.
 
True Alf I did wonder about that section but then saw it was mainly recipes and so more for the ladies.
 
I remember it well, mom sending me to the bakers at the top of nechells park rd to get a loaf (you had to leave it a couple of days, mind, before eating, it would make you bad otherwise - never stopped me picking the bits off on the way home though).
while there, mom often said to get some lardy cake for me and my brothers. makes me drool now (totally innapropriate now of course- Damn!).

Mom would often make bread pudding (not to be confused with bread and butter pudding) a couple of slices of that could sink a battleship, and the odd burnt currant on the edges always came as a shock to the tastebuds.

Archie
 
Oh I was thinking about these a while back (yum yum) & my dear cousin who now lives abroad has set me a challenge to find one next visit to dear ol' Brum. When I find said Lardy cake I have to take a photo of it (& me scoffing it of course!) & send it to her.

Ok, I'm now in Brum for a few days...........where can I find a nice Lardy/Dripping cake????? Advice & tips please........cant wait to find one. xx
 
Alf,
I make the bread pudding as usual to my own recipe,( I only use fresh bread) then when I take it out of the oven, I let it cool and then pour the Jack over it from both sides and leave it to soak in, then I lick the tray out ha ha.
 
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