I was a wee bit confused because what I know as a tea cake is what other folk would know as a fairy cake or a cupcake so I wondered why folk were toasting them...
When my mum used to make tea cakes I got to scrape the bowl so it was always a battle to convince her she had filled enough tea cakes to leave as much for me as possible.
//I was a wee bit confused because what I know as a tea cake is what other folk would know as a fairy cake or a cupcake so I wondered why folk were toasting them...//
It must vary around the country, I remember being asked by my future MIL if I would like a tea-cake with boiled ham on it. Across the Pennines, in Lancashire we had the fruit version, toasted with lot of butter. Those Tunnock things were chocolate teacakes to us.
zebo, that's probably the best example. Plain tea-cake to some, (meaning no fruit) to others it may be: barmcake, oven bottom, bread roll, muffin, baps etc etc