What is a tea cake??!
Answers: ok im from northen england (cumbria) and my boyfriend midlands (staffordshire) and we both have a different view on what a tea cake is....does it contain fruit and get toasted...or is it something you fill with ham or tuna ect??
Hi, I'm from Cumbria too and have always believed a tea cake is something you fill with cheese or any savoury filling just like you but my hubby is from Scotland and he calls them rolls
tea cake, i would say its a bit like a fruit scone
A tea cake is a kind of bread or cake. The name is commonly used for whatever bread or cake is traditionally served for afternoon tea within a region, but can be applied loosely to any kind of cake that is sturdy enough to be picked up with the fingers. Teacake is normally not frosted.
In Europe- a teacake is usually a light, sweet, yeast-based bun containing dried fruits such as currants, sultanas or peel. It is typically split, toasted, buttered, and served with tea. It is flat and circular, with a smooth brown upper surface and a somewhat lighter underside. In Kent the tea cake is known as a "huffkin", which is often flavoured with hops, especially at the time of harvesting hops in September.
In the US- it's similar to a sugar cookie, or a victoria coffee cake.
you can out ham and tuna in it, but its basicly a bun with dried fruit in it, tescos sell them.
well i always thought it was a cake that you have with tea coz i sometimes have a cinnamon tea cake = ]
Plain cake with apples/custard/pistachios/blueberries whatever you want in it.. doesn't get toasted definatly not filled with tuna.
Google it and there are many recipes to inform you more
http://www.teacakedebate.com/main.shtml
or is it...
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a tea cake is like a cake it has a shortcake style based with marshmellow and jam filling and all covered in chocolate
its like a current or hot x bun, that you toast!
its a fruit bun you toast and butter
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A tea cake where i come fom(northeast uk)is a bun with currents /mixed dried fruit in it.U can toast it,make sandwiches ,cut it in half & put jam on.Generally u would toast it or have jam on it as it is sweet with having currents in.We make sandwiches with it but most people toast it or have butter & or jam on.I use it like that but also make cheese sandwiches with it but thats just me.The fruit & toasted bit sounds the most like wot most people round here do.If u went to a tea shop/cafe theyd probly hav it offered on the menu toasted with butter or jam.
A "Tea Cake" is a "snowball shaped" treat, covered in chocolate, inside are layers of choclate and sometimes cream or jam, or even both, at the bottom is a layer of digestive biscuit which is also covered in chocolate.
Small little pastry, not too sweet. No fruit or filling, it's much more a dessert sweet type of cake. At least the ones I have seen. It may be a regional difference, you know how everyone likes to do things their own way.
In the South East of the UK, a teacake has always been a glazed, only very slightly domed (sweet) bun around 11-15cm diameter and 3-4cm thick, similar in texture to a hot cross bun, with white dough fairly fine in texture containing currants. It is frequently offered in small tea houses as a 'toasted teacake' and will be buttered or butter will be provided with it.
Can't say that we ever see it offered with savoury fillings, but jam or honey might be spread on them occasionally if desired.