Links - Cakes, Puddings, Sweets, Chocolate
These pages feature a number of websites that we've come across over the years or that have been recommended, and that we think might interest our customers and crew - the foodie sites are geared up to serve the domestic market, so we use them personally rather than as a business.
If you've found any good sites that you think would sit well here, do please send us a link and we'll have a look at it.
By the way, if you happen to find any links have stopped working please report them to webmaster@brunninngandprice.co.uk.
Cakes, Puddings, Sweets, Chocolate
A Quarter Of
A virtual sweet shop, with sweets galore from flying saucers to rhubarb and custard, shrimps and sweet tobacco to anglo bubbly bubble gum, bassetti to space dust - you will find them all at A Quarter Of... and many, many more. These guys insist on the real thing, so only Maynards will do for Milk Gums, Pascall’s make the Sherbet Lemons and Barratts do the Candy Shrimps. A flat £4.95 shipping charge, whatever the size of the order, tempts you to stock up a bit.
Betty’s By Post
Beware - this site is not for the wheat-intolerant. But if you are allowed proper stem-ginger shortbread, York cherry fruit cake or their best selling Fat Rascals, and fancy some fine teas to go with it, this will make your day.
Botham's of Whitby
Established as a tea shop in 1860 by Elizabeth Botham, two of her great-grandsons still help run the business which specialises in craft baking and confectionary. Their famous Yorkshire Brack, Plum bread, Cakes, Jams and Harrogate toffee are all available on line.
Georgie Porgie Puddings
Another Devon-based food operation, which specialises in tradional puddings - round Christmas puds, Orange and Cointreau puds, and a range of tradional steamed sponge puddings complete the range, which can be ordered on line or by mail order.
The Chocolate Society
A serious subject, chocolate, by all accounts. A lot of finger wagging going on here, but these people know their stuff and wax lyrical about single-estate Valrhona chocolate made from the Trinitario bean, which is a very mellow bean with a variety of characteristics ranging from newly mown hay, oak and honey to balsamic, depending on the soil, climate etc - you get the picture.
Nevertheless, if you’re after the real McCoy, this is where to get it.