Yorkshire tea cakes

Tea cakes are soft, white brioche-like buns with a shiny golden-brown top. Currants are added all over Britain, but not in West Yorkshire, where a tea cake is a plain bread roll. Cookbooks from the 19th century are divided about adding currants, with some stipulating currants in their recipes and others simply leaving the bun plain. It is sometimes also said in books from that period that the bun is the same bun as the Sally Lunn, but with added currants. To make it even more confusing, a t