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Vicar’s aga saga serves up treat
FATHER Guy Pope takes a break every autumn, but, instead of putting his feet up, the hard-working vicar of St Mary’s Church, Brookfield in Dartmouth Park spends a week making a bakery’s worth of cakes to sell at his Christmas bazaar.
His cakes have become something of a tradition – he has baked 40 each year for the past 12 years.
He said: “They are so popular I never even get one myself.” Their popularity is largely due to a special ingredient and a slow cooking process.
He said: “I steep the fruit mixture in Guinness before I cook it, and then when the cakes are ready I feed them with brandy, up to the day I sell them.”
The cakes are baked slowly for 12 hours in the bottom of an Aga oven at his Norfolk country cottage, where he spends the week making the batches.
He added: “There is one local person who is a titled lady. She makes sure she has one each year, because she has told her mother each Christmas she has baked it.”
The bazaar is on Saturday at the Church Hall in York Rise, Dartmouth Park, from 2-4pm.
Pictured: Father Guy Pope with his cakes.
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