mick2me 3,029 Posted October 8, 2006 Report Share Posted October 8, 2006 Can anyone remember "Nelson Squares" cakes which were a square slab with sweet pastry in a sandwitch form. In between was a current or Date type filling.Stodgy but delicious! What appenned to em? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tutanic 8 Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 Come to Ilkeston and go to Stacey's the bakers. They sell them and cream horns and Batenburg cake. You cannot beat Birds caramel donuts and blackcurrant tarts. A Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,029 Posted October 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 Fer me pud after visiting Jacko's Chippy. Where is this purveyor of baked commestibles? Cream horns even ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Karlton 582 Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 Can anyone remember "Nelson Squares" cakes which were a square slab with sweet pastry in a sandwitch form. In between was a current or Date type filling. Stodgy but delicious! What appenned to em? I remember them in the 50s we use to get them from marshalls bakery staion rd carlton. in fact they was oblong and I was led to believe the centre was made of rich currant cake similar to the inside of a christmas cake. never seen one since Mick they would have cost about tuppence in them days. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,009 Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 Eight and a half year bump !!! That's almost in Radford Red territory. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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TBI 2,351 Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 What the bleddy 'ell is that? Back to the thread, even if it is old, I was very partial to Nelson Squares when I was a kid, although they seemed to have disappeared by the eighties. I see the recipe is available on t'interweb, so I've found a little job for my resident pastry-cook! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 See the thread about Jam Cams. It's a Gremlin. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,046 Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 Mmmmmmmm Delish Nelson Squares.http://petergeekie.hubpages.com/hub/Nelson-Squares-another-cake-from-my-childhood 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 The gremlin has just eaten one hence the smile 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,046 Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 Look at all of the other recipes in the Link on #9. ( some really great old fashioned recipes to try Cheap anawl) The Ginger Beer Plant How many of you can remember Bottles of Dads exploding Ginger Beer in the Pantry. A regular event in our house, much to Mams dismay. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 #8 Oh I see, I thought the JamCam thread was another one about cakes 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 #11 No, not ginger beer, just dad's explosions after he'd been on the Shippoes ( so sorry ) BTW.. Looks like there's life in an old thread yet! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 I think they banned 'em because the filling was made up of out of date cakes!! Health and safety gone mad again!!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 I think the recipe just called for bread or cake crumbs, nothing about them being out of date. It could have been an EU directive though, the French and Spanish complained about the name, all because they lost the Battle of Trafalgar. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 So perhaps we should have called them Trafalgar Squares? (and beware of the pigeons!) Yes - I remember them. I think my mum used to make them sometimes - also using stale cake as the filling. I was never a great fan though, because I didn't like currants in them days. They were heavy and stodgy - giving rise to comments about taking them down to Hanley Street ! (Go figure...) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,000 Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 I'm guessing as chocks for the buses parked on the hill. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,355 Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 Might be a gremlin but its good to read through some of these older topics. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Karlton 582 Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 Marshalls on station road Carlton made them oblong as I said in in my previous post, perhaps he had Nelson's columb in mind if he had stuck to the dimension you'd need a bleddy big gob to digest it and a pocket full o' brass. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scriv 168 Posted March 24, 2015 Report Share Posted March 24, 2015 Nelson slices we called them when I was at school in Southwell; Gadsby's bakers van used to call round at morning break time selling all sorts of stuff that would probably give the health inspectors a cardiac arrest if it were to happen these days. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dave 48 847 Posted March 24, 2015 Report Share Posted March 24, 2015 http://www.mytaste.co.uk/s/nelson-slice.html Get Baking....LOL Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,185 Posted March 29, 2015 Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 Nelson Squares and I think also known as "Blockbusters" were sold in the Empire Café on Foreman Street opposite the Evening Post offices. A blockbuster and a tea cost 6d in the mid 1960s. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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