In 1919 a Swiss confectioner named Frederick Belmont founded the world famous Bettys Café Tea Rooms in Harrogate and in 1983 they introduced their best selling cake the ‘Fat Rascal’ based on an original Turf cake recipe. A cross between a traditional scone and a rock cake they would have been made with the simplest of ingredients, flour, sugar, a drop of fresh milk and an egg and if the farmer’s wife was feeling generous a handful of currants or raisins. In the mid 19th century Yorkshire farmers would cook turf cakes on a spade over a turf fire.
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