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Stottie cakes

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    2

    large
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Oats in the North, Wheat from the South: The history of British Baking, savoury and sweet

By Regula Ysewijn

Published 2020

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A Stottie cake or Stotty is a large, round, dense white loaf that was traditionally about 30 cm (12 inches) in diameter and baked on both the top and bottom sides. It is a working-class staple, particularly in Newcastle as my friend Emma noted. She never encountered them until she moved to Newcastle in the 1980s.

The first published reference to a Stottie cake dates from the Daily Mirror of 9 December 1949. The article notes that there is no recipe and, ‘To make it you simply

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