Occasionally you see a headline in a newspaper and think it must be a comic story, then you read it and find out it has much more truth in it than you can imagine! This intriguing headline made me read the article:
Eccles cakes… the key to energy needs
This just struck me as such a hilarious story. To begin with, Eccles is in Manchester and I have been there, but it is such a funny name, I guess forever associated in my mind with the Eccles character in the Goons. However, back to Eccles cakes, I adore them although they are very fattening… and I confess I have heated them in a conventional oven…. mmmm…. they are even more delicious and worth the risk of a burnt tongue!
To make the headline funnier , the one adjacent to it which was talking about out door eating, seemed to run on from it:
Exploding Eccles cakes, firemen’s nemesis – The recipe for a perfect barbecue
The editor of the Daily Telegraph in which this story appeared, was obviously similarly captivated by the headline because he wrote an editorial comment:
Barring nuclear fusion, which eludes the efforts of science to harness it, the most powerful source of calorific energy so far discovered has been the Pop-Tart caught in the toaster. Einstein, had he known about the Pop-Tart (to him, as unsuspected as the Higgs boson), might have reformulated his equation as E=pc², where p is one Pop-Tart unit.
But now firemen in Liverpool have found an even more powerful energy source: Eccles cakes. In recent days, three fires on Merseyside have started through an Eccles cake being put in a microwave to warm up. Apart from an Eccles cake not needing to be warmed up (its curranty interior, like a flies’ graveyard, being best left at ambient temperature), microwaving one is madness. It might melt down all the way to the Earth’s core. Yet if scientists could tame this stupendous energy, we might bid wind turbines a glad goodbye.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/10068905/Not-a-cake-to-bake.html
If you look very carefully at my featured image, behind the biscuit on the plate, is a sneaky Eccles cake!
Lois Elsden 