Banbury Cakes

These sweet oval puff pastries stuffed with juicy currants take their name from the town where they originated - Banbury in Oxfordshire, England - and date back to medieval times when they were baked for high days and holidays. Other similar local pastries appeared all over the UK around this time too, such as the Eccles Cake, Chorley Cake, Scottish Black Bun and Welsh Cakes.