Does 1923 Be-Ro Book hold the secret to Sunderland's Pink Slice?
I'm in the midst of researching my next historical saga, which will be called The Bakery Girls . As the title suggests, it's set in a bakery and I'm knee deep in bread and cakes. It's not a bad place to be. The novel will include the fictional birth of a Sunderland local delicacy, the pink slice cake. And so, I've been baking pink slice. For those outside the area wanting to know what pink slice is, it's two layers of shortbread with jam in the middle and if that's not enough sugar and fat for you, it's got pink icing on top. It looks like this, taken from the wonderful Mackem CewkBook . And it tastes amazing. I've already baked pink slice using the recipe from the Mackem Cewkbook and my pink slice came out looking like this. They were delicious and once you start eating it, you can't stop. Really easy to make too. I highly recommend the recipe in the Mackem CewkBook But where did pink slice originally come from? A quick search online sugges...