stottie cake/bread

madlyn

calling all geordies. my mum moved from newcastle upon tyne to leicestershire 40 yrs ago. and is constantly saying she wants to make some stottie cake, so i've decided to keep her quiet and make some myself, but i dont have a recepie. so would someone be kind enough to share theirs?

McKneff

Cant say Ive ever made it or seen a recipe to be honest but Im sure there will be one out there.

You dragged up almost forgotten memories.

Ham and Pease puddin' in a stotty cake for Saturday tea. mmmmmmmmmmm

I go back home every now and again and I just have to have one...

(see, I still call it 'home' and Ive been left 44 years now):D

Annie

madlyn

i hope your memories are happy ones?
you cant beat a bit of stottie cake. better than all this arty farty stuff they bake now. proper grub!

System

its just a huge bread bun isnt it ,you can get them at asda here in yorkshire.

McKneff

CHRISSYG wrote: »

its just a huge bread bun isnt it ,you can get them at asda here in yorkshire.[/QUOTE

No, No, No. Nothing is sold anywhere else that is remotely like a
Geordie Stottie Cake.

Its a special big bread bun, different texture to bread buns altogether.

Best ones are from Grainger Market up the toon (ask your mam if she remembers it) I'm sure she will, I'm 62 and I used to go there with my mam as a child.

Seakay

A lot of recipes if you Google - this one looks authentic:

http://darkdwarfblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/stottie-cake-recipe.html

imogen-p

I don't have a recipe of my own, but this one looks about right http://www.fulbeckbread.co.uk/recipes/stottie.htm
I think the main difference of stottie to bread is that it uses plain flour and milk in the recipe.

The site has some other nice bread recipes too.

rising_from_the_ashes

McKneff wrote: »

You dragged up almost forgotten memories.

Ohhhh fond memories for me too - I love stottie and couldn't believe you couldn't get it elsewhere when I first left the NE:o

I've given up trying to find anything similar as ..... there just isn't!;)

Eenymeeny

Hi Madlyn, another stottie cake fan here! I'm fortunate to have a Greggs nearby. They've made stottie famous I reckon! (There's a Greggs shop in Newcastle airport where you can buy stotties to take to ex-pat families when visiting!)
They once published a recipe book for charity. I remember sending it out to my sister in Greece. I'll see if she can help...
Maybe someone would have a copy of that? Good luck.

mavisangelica

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

Ohhhh fond memories for me too - I love stottie and couldn't believe you couldn't get it elsewhere when I first left the NE:o

I've given up trying to find anything similar as ..... there just isn't!;)

I remember when my sister moved to Scotland and got excited that there was a Greggs nearby but the disappointment that they didn't sell stotties!

Petlamb

Gah, I bought a Greggs cookbook years ago and it has the stottie recipe in it, but it's at my parents - if it was here I'd type it out for you!