Sticky Toffee Pudding with a Toffee Sauce
A trip to Grange-Over-Sands and Cartmel, the home of Sticky Toffee Pudding.
A Trip to Grange Over Sands - April 2024
Recipe - Sticky Toffee and Date Pudding
A Trip to Grange-Over-Sands
In April 2024, I spent a few days with family in Grange-Over-Sands, Cumbria. It’s a two-hour drive from where I live, taking the scenic route via Bradford and Keighley along the edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park and the Forest of Bowland National Landscape.
Our original intention was to spend a few hours in Kirby Lonsdale, but we decided to drive straight to Grange-Over Sands on the other side of Morecambe Bay, where we planned to stay the night and explore the town.
Apart from delicious bakeries, coffee shops, craft shops and Charity shops, Grange-Over-Sands has a wonderful promenade sandwiched between the rail track and the Sandbanks, Marshes and mud flats of Morecambe Bay.
We stayed at The Netherwood Hotel and Spa, where the meal that evening was some of the best I have eaten in a long time. Sea Bass with a mix of stir-fried vegetables and coconut sauce, followed by, you’ve guessed it, Sticky Toffee Pudding.
The following day, we drove a few miles to Cartmel, which was said to be the home of sticky toffee pudding.
‘The original and the best, this rich, gooey, heavenly, pudding was lovingly created in the kitchen of Cartmel Village Shop and is now shipped all over the world and sold everywhere’1
This area, including Kirby Lonsdale, which we also called in on the way home, is well worth visiting and has some lovely walks.
Cartmel.org. Things to see and do.