Goosnargh cakes

On 18 June 1859 The Preston Chronicle reported that many thousands of the famous Goosnargh cakes were sold in Goosnargh on Whitsun that year. The nearby village of Stalmine had its own version of this biscuit and called them Tosset cakes. Bakeries in Wirksworth and Winster in Derbyshire also baked them as Wirksworth and Winster Wakes cakes, with currants instead of caraway seeds. ‘At Winster Wakes there’s ale and cakes’ goes an old song and, indeed, these biscuits were mainly eaten w