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Re: Off topic - Fat Rascals history
« Reply #18 on: Saturday 30 June 18 18:47 BST (UK) »
This from the BNArchive:  Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Tuesday 18 January 1944
(15 years ago would be 1929). Anyone got this wonderful WI recipe book?

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A letter to the Whitby Gazette, re: the court case (I think);

https://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/news/letters-fat-rascals-once-cooked-on-moorland-around-whitby-1-8873681

It includes the recipe from the 3rd edition (1958) of the WI Cook Book;

Ingredients

8oz self raising flour, 4oz lard, 3oz sugar, 2oz currants, 1oz sultanas, pinch of salt, water or beaten egg.

Method

Rub the lard into the flour and add the other ingredients.

Mix to a fairly soft dough with a little water or, to make extra good use a little well beaten egg. Roll out to about half inch thickness and cut into rounds.

Bake in a hot oven (425°) for about 15 minutes or until nicely brown. Makes about twenty-four pieces.


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Re: Off topic - Fat Rascals history
« Reply #19 on: Monday 24 February 20 18:02 GMT (UK) »
Hello bugbear  :D

Fast forward to 21st Feb 2020

Channel 5 Friday 21st at 21 00 pm

Celebrity Britain by Barge,Then and Now

Bill Oddie,Jennie Bond,Anne Diamond and Pete Waterman

On the journey Anne Diamond stopped off to go to  the shop where  Fat Rascals were made .YUMMY
Saw them being made
The other name was said several times,but I cant remember it  :-X
I had been looking for at least an Hour,when I came across you Thread  :)

Must see if its on Catch Up etc

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Re: Off topic - Fat Rascals history
« Reply #20 on: Monday 24 February 20 19:24 GMT (UK) »
Found another recipe, from a Yorkshire paper: BNArchive, as always.

Bradford Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 20 August 1901

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Looks like I need to buy a girdle  ;D before I attempt to make these. 
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Re: Off topic - Fat Rascals history
« Reply #21 on: Monday 24 February 20 20:05 GMT (UK) »
I have just watched a topic on The One Show about Fat Rascals and Betty’s Tea Rooms. I, too, had never heard of them. I then come on RC and find this old thread back on topic 😄

Having read through the old recipes, it seems I have eaten them but never knew they had a name!
My Nan used to make them when I was a child and they were scrummy! She never used a recipe book or scales and I have tried many times to make them but they were never as good as hers. In fact, I only mentioned them to my husband this morning.

I shall have to try one of the old recipes and see if they turn out as good as my Nans 😄
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Re: Off topic - Fat Rascals history
« Reply #22 on: Monday 24 February 20 20:21 GMT (UK) »
I saw them in a shop window in Haworth and took a photo as had never heard of them before.
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Re: Off topic - Fat Rascals history
« Reply #23 on: Tuesday 25 February 20 08:40 GMT (UK) »
This from the BNArchive:  Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Tuesday 18 January 1944
(15 years ago would be 1929). Anyone got this wonderful WI recipe book?

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Found almost (but not quite...) by chance

Leeds Mercury - Friday 04 November 1927; the first edition of the WI book.

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Further researching the WI book;

This google book

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xT8eDQAAQBAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s

lists early editions as
October 1927
November 1927
December 1927
March 1928
July 1928
December 1928

(those sound like print runs, not editions, to me)

Worthpoint has a reference to a copy being sold on eBay

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1927-yorkshire-recipes-pub-leeds-york-533035888

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Re: Off topic - Fat Rascals history
« Reply #24 on: Tuesday 25 February 20 09:20 GMT (UK) »
I was in St Davids over the weekend and enjoyed some Welsh cakes - scrummy - and they seem to be a bit similar to Fat Rascals except the Yorkshire cakes have more milk in the dough?

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Re: Off topic - Fat Rascals history
« Reply #25 on: Tuesday 25 February 20 09:47 GMT (UK) »
I saw them in a shop window in Haworth and took a photo as had never heard of them before.

That might have been the bakery I went to decades ago!  :)
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Re: Off topic - Fat Rascals history
« Reply #26 on: Tuesday 25 February 20 10:29 GMT (UK) »
Fat Rascals are simply scones by any other name. ;)
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