I am from the uk: coffee cake should have coffee in it. Usually found as coffee-and-walnut variety.
I am from Yorkshire. I'm familiar with teacake for a small soft white bread roll, but it's more usually a fruit teacake rather than a plain one, and eaten toasted with butter on as a snack, usually with a cup of tea.
But a tea *loaf* is a type of fruit cake where the fruit is soaked in tea before baking. You also get these in Yorkshire.
Currants in baking terms are like small more dried out raisins. I didn't know they were still a sort of dried grape though, but hadn't really thought about it. A blackcurrant/redcurrant/whitecurrant would be no use at all in a currant bun! (Sultanas are generally golden brown, raisins dark brown, currants smaller and nearly black).
Coffee cake being the cake you have with coffee is still weird to me.
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Date: 2025-05-07 03:38 pm (UTC)I am from Yorkshire. I'm familiar with teacake for a small soft white bread roll, but it's more usually a fruit teacake rather than a plain one, and eaten toasted with butter on as a snack, usually with a cup of tea.
But a tea *loaf* is a type of fruit cake where the fruit is soaked in tea before baking. You also get these in Yorkshire.
Currants in baking terms are like small more dried out raisins. I didn't know they were still a sort of dried grape though, but hadn't really thought about it. A blackcurrant/redcurrant/whitecurrant would be no use at all in a currant bun! (Sultanas are generally golden brown, raisins dark brown, currants smaller and nearly black).
Coffee cake being the cake you have with coffee is still weird to me.