HELP i'm stranded in Preston, can someone rescue me from these Lancashire nutcases !

I am trying to explain what a Sally Lunn is, can someone quote their understanding of what one is without me prompting, and get these red rose barbarians off my case !! ???

Is it something you eat....something to do with a woman who once lived in Bath? :D

hi sally lunn is a bun it is a doughy consistancy with or with out currants icing on the top normally 6 inches long split down the centre served withlots of butter

nearest description I can think is a sort of glazed fruit bread/tea cake with white icing and a cherry on top.
but don't get the barm cakes over there started on barm cakes!!

in sheffield we call it an iced finger.
great with butter

Thanks for helping out guys, don't think these lot have the same class as Sheffield folk, they'll be questioning that we're from Gods own county next !

P.S. It's true it NEVER stops raining over here !

As someone who used to go to Bath regularly and to the original Sally Lunn's tea shop, it does NOT have icing on! It is a sweet-ish bread bun. The ones with currants/sultanas are just split down the middle, toasted and buttered. The ones without are split and served with savoury toppings.

roll of soft sweet bred, with currants and icing on top.


mmmmmmmm

Sally Lunn ???
My nan calls them that! Some places in Sheffield don't know what they are - I have to translate.

Sausage shaped tea cake with with currants and a stripe of white icing down the top.

Originally posted by ourjs
hi sally lunn is a bun it is a doughy consistancy with or with out currants icing on the top normally 6 inches long split down the centre served withlots of butter
Spot on but I always eat it without butter.
Sally Lunn lived in Bath in the 1600s I think and she supposedly first baked it hence the name, her shop is still standing in Bath and if anyones down that way its worth a visit(its still a bakery)

I once knew an old lady called Sally Lunn. She was a realy sweetie. They named buns after her? Wow... :hihi:

Originally posted by relight9
Thanks for helping out guys, don't think these lot have the same class as Sheffield folk, they'll be questioning that we're from Gods own county next !

P.S. It's true it NEVER stops raining over here !

As someone who's just moved back home to Sheffield after living in Preston, you have my deepest sympathies :(
Don't get me started on Sally Lunns, Barm Cakes, they don't even know/do cod roe, even pikelets confounded them :confused:
Have you tried the parched peas, a particular delicacy native to Preston? yukkkkk :gag:
And you're right it did seem to rain an awful lot while I was living there ;)

Originally posted by xltim
in sheffield we call it an iced finger.
great with butter

Er,, some of us in Sheffield call them Sally Lunn.

Originally posted by xltim
in sheffield we call it an iced finger.
great with butter

No, iced fingers are only little (size of a finger role). Sally Lunns are bigger and you can slice them. I agree, great with butter!

That's what I reckon anyhoo, but I'm a Stockport lass.

Chicken Monkey x

I always thought Sally Lunns have icing top with nuts on and are about the size of a loaf, full of raisins. The ones I've had have a type of icing/ almond filling stuffed just under the top of the 'loaf'

Iced fingers are nothing like a Sally Lunn!

Thanks for the sympathetic ear LellyBee, but i have'nt made it back to Sheffield yet, they found my tunnel !

I was assured Parched Peas would change my mind about Lancashire and it's taste for the finer things, but uuurrrgghh! they're orrible ! they're just gone of garden peas that you have to drown in vinegar to get them down !

Even the guy that sold them to us said that parched peas originated from a shipwreck off the Yorkshire coast last century.The peas were washed ashore in bags by the thousand, and Yorkshire folk rejected them as they were off, only to find that exporting them to Lancashire was a fairly welcomed option, what more can i say !

How i miss my Sheffield.

There was an old mad lady who was always on Townend. She used to go round begging for money off everyone for a Sally Lunn! I presume she was mad anyway, because she used to say "Have you got 20p for a Sally Sally Sally Lunn Lunn" Ha! Ha! Ha! She was fun!

i once spent a rainy night in preston..its where zombies go to retire...:D