Barmbrack is a traditional Irish fruitcake which is also known as Irish Tea Cake depending on the time of year that you’re eating it! The most commonly used term in Greater Manchester, although because there is such a diversity of names used in Manchester this only amounts to between 30-39% of Mancunians. So, a bread roll mainly used for chip butty, yum! Another popular filling in the North West, particularly Bolton, is the pasty barm. Gather your ingredients together, you will need strong white bread flour, salt, yeast, caster sugar, butter and water. Apparently you can have a Barm Cake with black pudding as the filing too, doesn't sound as tasty! If I realised this before hand, I would so had one of these!

Barm cake / Barm – name most commonly used by 6% of English people. Ingredients. A barm cake is a soft, round, flattish bread roll from North West England, traditionally leavened with barm.. Chips are a popular filling, sold in most fish and chip shops in the North West of England and often called a chip barm. :/ So, making Barm Cakes! This recipe makes a really moist, fruit loaf which is packed with flavour from mixed spice and dried fruit. Paul Hollywood’s Barm Cakes. 2 cups black tea, cooled 3 ⁄ 4 cup raisins ; 1 ⁄ 2 cup dried currants, cranberries, or cherries ; 2 tbsp. You can find the full recipe for the Barm Cakes in Paul Hollywood’s How to Bake Book. Pretty much the same as usual bread, except there is also a bit of sugar involved and a lot more water than usual!