THE ABERFFRAW BISCUIT (or cake) goes by a number of names, but whatever you call it, with a tradition dating back to the 13th century, it’s often held up as the oldest recognised biscuit in Britain.
A basic shortbread, moulded into the shape of a scallop shell, the Aberffraw might not be the best known of all biscuits these days, but boy does it have serious heritage.
In Welsh it’s the teisen Berffro - teisen meaning cake and Berffro being a colloquial rendering of Aberffraw, the coastal village on Anglesey from which they are said to hail.
The story goes that the wife of a 13thcentury Welsh king who kept court at Aberffraw was walking on the beach while her husband was busy doing kingly stuff in the town. Spying a scallop shell, she took it back to her lodgings and asked if a cake could be made in the same shape. One was duly baked, turning out as a hard shortbread (they didn’t have the cake/biscuit debate back then apparently), and a legend was born. The more plausible
THE ABERFFRAW BISCUIT (or cake) goes by a number of names, but whatever you call it, with a tradition dating back to the 13th century, it's often held up as the oldest recognised biscuit in Britain.
Aberffraw biscuits are said to be Britain's oldest biscuit! The Welsh shortbread is pressed with the shape of a scallop shell and are made with high quality ingredients to create a rich, buttery shortbread. The Great Taste Award winning biscuits are made with a 12 months shelf life.
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