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Does anyone know if any Bakers still sell this in Swindon? If so, please post which ones and where they are. I would love to get some next time i am down in Swindon , i haven't had any for years.

Don't they sell it in Bedford then?  ???

Sadly No.

I think it's a Dorset/Wiltshire thing, it's never been available round here.

Used to have it in Glos & Staffs as a young un. Its not a Dorset/Wilts only thing.

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I have a chunk most weeks....gorgeous,on my travels i have found lardy cake in some forms but they dont call it lardy.

My missus knows how to make it. Her Gramp used to be a baker and his bakery made the best lardy cake ever!

they have it in th co-op and its by a local baker. draycotts i think it is?

A bit of a detour, but Marshalls bakery in Pewsey is the best I have tried recently.

The Reeves chain usually has some but it can be too dry.

greggs used to do it, dunno if they still do, worth a check.

i've seen it in greggs this very week!

No its not, Lardy Cake has always been available right across the south of England, probably the whole of England. I've been eating the stuff since the 50s, still made in independent bakeries, someone else mentioned Greggs, I've got to admit I haven't seen it for sell with them.

Best Lardy to be found is in Weston Super Mare. Its a cake shop to the rear of the cafe on Oxford corner. Super, smashing, lovely.

Pop down 4 times a year for fish and chips then a Lardy. we know it as keep fit Sunday.

I ruddy loved lardy as a kid (as is probably evident). My nan always picked me up a slice Saturday morning from Castle's by the old market.

Sounds like you have a few options there, but the bakery in Borough Fields in Wootton Bassett sells it too. Love the stuff.

there's a bakery in the covered market in oxford which sells lardy cake, it's bloody gorgeous

Thanks everyone. Obviously it's for sale in more places than i thought, but not in Bedford for some reason, i have tried trust me.

Theres a Bakers in Bassett that sells a good one........Greggs is shite..too dry.

*cough*

 This takes me back....when I was a nipper, as a treat on a Saturday, we used to have a lardy delivered by a mobile baker, for a post match treat.  The old man would then despatch me down the street to buy a bottle of Tizer and a Football Pink. 

 Said lardy, was probably unlike today's effort's,  being coated by enough grease to lube the axles and pistons of an 0-6-0 Collett pannier tank.

 This was back when the "rag and bone" man still called with a horse and cart....I kid you not.

The ones in Bassett are pretty darn greasy! They stick to the bag so that it falls apart when you try to remove the cake, and its impossible to eat it without getting your fingers filthy. The way it should be!

That was the best lardy cake, some of the new stuff i've had isn't anything like when i was a kid, the more stodgier and covered in grease the better.

And i remember the rag n bone man coming down our road in Bedford when i was young, on a horse and cart just like you said Reg, that took me right back.

Growing up, "The Pie Shop" in Devizes used to make superb lardies, always queues on market days

We used to come over the plain from Codford for them...alas no more :-(

The Cakehole on Moredon Road and Breadlines on Rodbourne Road do.

Talking of ther rag and bone man, anybody seen the guy with a pony and cart going round town collecting scrap metal?  Don't know wether he is just a diddy or what, but I do know he held a lot of traffic up who were following him up the hill by Christ Church last week!

We had one from the Cakehole today.  Fab. A little on the thin side but taste and lard content? Superb.

8 out of 10

A Lardy has to be moist with plenty of fruit  :yum:

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bought a lardy cake from nash's bakery in oxford market today, it's bloody wonderful. £2.25 for a big slab of the stuff.

I found some in Breadlines in Rodbourne last week, and it was an excellent attempt

Bake one...post it.....nowwwwwwwwwwwwwww :)

I've never tried it, but it is definitely one of those foods that sounds like it should be disgusting! 

nooooooooooo, it's great. i'd bring some to the pub today if i had time so you could try it.

Hmmm I might investigate making this, although my speciality is chocolate torte!

I think if you make it then it may put you off, but buy one already made and warm it in the oven for a bit or 30 secs in a microwave and it is bloody lovely!

I've never been a fan of fruit cakes though and looking at the recipe has put me off!

It's not a fruit cake as such. Just has some raisins(?) in it.

And mixed peel!  I don't like either!