[Barrie Yates]

Originally Posted by West Ender

I was about to say that, Gayle. A Chorley cake is the plain pastry one, Eccles cake uses pastry made with butter, and both contain raisins. I used to make both, regularly, and never heard them called sad cakes. My Chorley cakes, like my mother's before me, were always plate sized and cut into "pie slices" before being buttered.

I though Eccles Cakes were made using a type of puff pastry, whereas Sad Cake was ordinary pie crust pastry