Talk:Eccles cake

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Eccles vs. Chorley?

What exactly is the difference between an Eccles Cake and a Chorley Cake? They both seem to be identical to me, but a few people I've spoken to claim that there's a difference in the amount of filling. I'm right slap bang in the middle of Eccles and Chorley, so the two seem to be used interchangeably by most.

Is there a difference, or is Chorley Cake another pseudonym for Eccles Cake? 86.140.252.76 17:13, 9 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Eccles in in Salford, not near Salford.

The differences are well outlined on the Chorley cake page, and can be aummarise as 1) Eccles uses puff pastry, Chorley shortcrust; 2) traditionally (and this obviously varies these days) no sugar was added to a Chorley cake, to either the fruit or pastry; 3) Chorley cakes usually use currants exclusively, whereas Eccles uses a mixture of currants, raisins and sultanas. Pyrope 10:01, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Capitalisation

I think it ought to be "Eccles cake", not "Eccles Cake". ---- Eric 01:06, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just like the Chorley cake already is in fact :) ---- Eric 01:13, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fly cake/Fly Pie

From what I remember growin up in eccles, fly cake (or fly pie) were when the basic eccles cake was rolled so that the currents showed proud of the surface before baking (producing little hard crunchy areas on the currents so that it were like biting into a bug) whilst Eccles cakes did not have the currents showing entirely through the surface so there werent no crunchy bits.

This difference in preperation gave them a completely different texture as well as a slightly different taste. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.152.156.88 (talk) 23:58, 19 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah!! Both me and my dad love Eccles Cakes, but neither of us can stand Fly Pie. They're completely different foods as far as taste, texture and appearance is concerned. Sure they have the same ingredients, but they are completely different foods. They should each have there own sections. 109.156.236.23 (talk) 03:04, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Another similarity with Garibaldi biscuits

This article says that Eccles cakes are nicknamed as "squash fly cakes", and then says that the cakes bear similarities to Garibaldi biscuits. It could help to stress the similarities to Garibaldis more if it pointed out that Garibaldi biscuits are often nicknamed "squash fly biscuits". ACEOREVIVED (talk)

Alleged to be flammable?

"The sugar contained in the cakes is alleged to be flammable"

Sugar is flammable; there's no "alleged" about it. Should I remove the "alleged", or is this intended to say "The cause of the fires is alleged to be the sugar on top of the cakes"? Marnanel (talk) 10:16, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The latter, I'd say, although "was thought to be the sugar on top of the cakes" (or "was said to be") would be more appropriate. No one's alleging criminality on the part of the sugar at this point.

Sca (talk) 16:03, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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