A Piece Of Cake

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A Piece of Cake: 5. Eccles Cake

A Piece of Cake

5. Eccles Cake

BBC Radio 4 Extra - A Piece of Cake, 5. Eccles Cake

A final choice slice of British sweet treats and the stories behind them.

Concluding her sweet treat tour in Lancashire,  Sheila McClennon samples the sweet currant-and-pastry cakes of Eccles.

Sheila McClennon arrives in the Lancashire town of Eccles to taste its famous sweet currant-and-pastry cakes.

A final mouthful of five British sweet treats and the stories behind them.

Producer: Libby Cross 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2004.

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