According to the Tonbridge Historical Society web site these were popular in the hay day of Tunbridge Wells with those genteel folk taking the waters
Tonbridge Cake
Ingredients:
1 lb flour, 6 oz sugar, 6 oz butter, 2 eggs
Method:
Rub butter well into flour, add sugar and mix thoroughly, make into stiff paste with the two eggs well beaten; roll out till thin and cut with the top of a tumbler into rounds; prick these with a fork and cover with caraways or brush with white of egg and dust over with a little white sugar, or, instead of either, place on each round a thin crescent or horseshoe-shaped slice of candied peel; place on a flat tin and bake in a moderate oven."
2 comments:
If this recipe is pre 1870 as your posting indicated then it should be Tunbridge Cake. The same principle as Tunbridge Ware is not called Tonbridge Ware.
Or should it anonymous at 4.11pm?? It maybe should have been Tonebrige, Tongrigg, Tunbridg, or Tonbridge. All commonly used spellings as well as Tunbridge pre 1800! The truth is no one could read, let alone spell back then!...
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