Can anyone help <eclefecen>?!
Answers: in the sainsbury tv add for tarts they say they are made in eclefecen i would like to know where in the uk this is . sorry for the spelling of it im not sure if its correct. thankyou.
SW Scotland, & it's Ecclefechan
no. there is no help for dislexia
Traditional Scottish Recipes
- Ecclefechan Butter Tart
When travel writer Bruce Stannard from Scots Heritage Magazine was staying at Coul House Hotel he was so impressed by the Ecclefechan Butter Tart that he asked for the recipe. Here it is. As for Ecclefechan, that's a small town in Dunfries and Galloway where the influential philosopher and historian Thomas Carlyle was born.
Ingredients:
2 Beaten eggs
6oz (200 gms or just under one US cup) soft brown sugar
1 tbsp vinegar
8oz (250 gms or One and a quarter US cups) mixed dried fruit
2oz (50 gms) chopped walnuts
Prepared shortcrust pastry
4oz (125 gms or one stick) melted butter
Method:
Mix the sugar, butter and beaten eggs together. Stir in the vinegar, then add mixedfiruit and nuts. Line patty tins with pastry and put a spoonful of the mixture into each. Bake in a fairly hot oven (190C/375F/Gas Mark 5) for 20-25 minutes.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), the essayist, satirist and historian was born in Ecclefechan on 4 December 1795 at The Arched House. Carlyle left Ecclefechan at the age of 13 and walked the 84 miles to Edinburgh in order to attend university. He never forgot his roots and insisted that Ecclefechan should become his final resting place. He was buried in Ecclefechan churchyard on 5 February 1881.
Archibald Arnott (1772-1855), Napoleon's doctor on St Helena, was born in Ecclefechan on 18 April 1772 at Kirconnel Hall. He returned to Ecclefechan in his retirement and he was also buried in the Ecclefechan churchyard.
William Harkness (1837-1903) who was an astronomer was born at Ecclefechan.
Robert Burns (1759-1796) composed a song entitled The Lass O' Ecclefechan.