Eccles cakes taste better after sell by date
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I am partial to Eccles cakes and often get pre packaged ones.
Yesterday, I found a pack that had fallen to the back of the pantry and just had one this morning.
The taste was more intense and the flavour of the fruit had soaked into the pastry. Then I looked at the use by date - 20/3/16!
Had I noticed that, I would have binned them.
I'm going to buy them in now to age and mature.
Yesterday, I found a pack that had fallen to the back of the pantry and just had one this morning.
The taste was more intense and the flavour of the fruit had soaked into the pastry. Then I looked at the use by date - 20/3/16!
Had I noticed that, I would have binned them.
I'm going to buy them in now to age and mature.
Parabola said:
Hendersons Relish is the same. Marmite too.
Those two things should never, ever be mentioned in the same breath. I've struck out the offender.One has the ability to make most things taste better (and meat pies are simply not the same without it).
The other is less preferable than dog s
t as a foodstuff.I used to work in a factory that made Eccles cakes. It was actually in Oldham, but we'll gloss over that. The rework loop was such that it would roll out a base from mixed up rework pastry, then deposit the filling, then a layer of virgin flaky pastry fresh from the laminator, then stamp out the circles to reveal the Eccles cakes that went into the ovens. The unused webs would form the rework, because as it was forming the bottom of the cake that was the bit of the cake where nobody was bothered about a bit of stray fruit. The amusing thing was that this line had run day and night for the last 20 years without a pastry break (where all the work in progress is binned and you start again with virgin paste) so somewhere in the mix there was a very small portion of pastry just going round and round and round for 20 years. Normally pastry goes sour when you abuse it like this, but clearly Eccles cakes are made of sterner stuff. Just as you have proved. Perhaps we need to tell our prepper friends and they can ass them to their "go" bags as the ultimate survival food.
48k said:
OP says use by date. Thread title says sell by date.
The two things are different.
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No bugger understands the difference.comThe two things are different.
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There is actually a public info/education ad on the radio pointing out the difference, it's well done. Makes it clear that Best Before is advisory, ignore it if you like, but Use By is for your safety and you really should pay attention. As I said earlier, nothing has been marked up "Sell by" since about 1983 when the law was changed. Good to see that the public are paying close attention to what they eat, as ever.
battered said:
No bugger understands the difference.com
There is actually a public info/education ad on the radio pointing out the difference, it's well done. Makes it clear that Best Before is advisory, ignore it if you like, but Use By is for your safety and you really should pay attention. As I said earlier, nothing has been marked up "Sell by" since about 1983 when the law was changed. Good to see that the public are paying close attention to what they eat, as ever.
When was the radio ad last played on Radio 1?There is actually a public info/education ad on the radio pointing out the difference, it's well done. Makes it clear that Best Before is advisory, ignore it if you like, but Use By is for your safety and you really should pay attention. As I said earlier, nothing has been marked up "Sell by" since about 1983 when the law was changed. Good to see that the public are paying close attention to what they eat, as ever.
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