Romney's Kendal Mint Cake 85 g (Pack of 8)

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This was seven years after the end of World War II, when the UK was still subject to food rationing. As a result, Romney’s had to make a special request for additional sugar, which was granted. Mr Sam. T. Clarke, the great grandfather of the present Managing Director, Mr John Barron, started production of Romney’s Kendal Mint Cake in 1918 after being medically discharged during the First World War. On the push for the summit of Everest, a climber burns an average of 20,000 calories a day (and 10,000 a day for the rest of the climb). That’s quite a few bars of Kendal Mint Cake … Minty facts

We sell different variations of Kendal mint cake. Brown sugar mint cake makes the product brown rather than the familiar white of the original flavour.

Kendal Mint Cake Recipe

Old Cumbria Gazetteer". Geography Department, Portsmouth University. 2013 . Retrieved 19 February 2018. KMC NRG BAR also includes our Electrolyte & B-Vitamin blend carefully designed to help with physical performance and the breakdown of carbohydrate into energy. Famously, the mint cake has been to the top of the world. In 1975, Sir Chris Bonington took Quiggin’s Kendal Mint Cake on his successful ascent of Mount Everest. George Romney Ltd is a fourth-generation confectionery business that you’ll find located on the edge of the Lake District National Park in the market town of Kendal.

The Kendal Mint Cake’s flavor and color vary from the white version due to brown sugar. White sugar tastes bland and is white, while brown sugar tastes like molasses and is caramel-colored.The actual production is confined to one room. First, a large vat heats up and mixes the sugar with glucose and water. The next steps are done by hand. The sugar mixture is poured into copper pans nearly a century old. Factory workers add essence of peppermint and mix this in a process known as ‘graining’, which helps the compound achieve its distinctive cloudy appearance. Employees then ladle the concoction into silicone moulds in a variety of sizes and shapes. These moulds have perforations for easy splitting of the sheets.

Peppermint oil gives the cake its strong minty flavour, but that’s not why it was used initially. Peppermint oil is believed to have medicinal benefits. It can settle stomach discomfort and help with headaches and nausea. We know people still eat mint cake today because of its healing properties. a b "The famous confection from Kendal". BBC Online. 24 September 2014 . Retrieved 16 September 2017. Yes! Kendal Mint Cake is great for runners as it contains glucose which is the preferred source of instant energy by the body.Kendal Mint Cake is made from sugar, glucose, water, and peppermint oil. [16] Although the exact recipe and method of manufacturing mint cake is kept secret, [7] it is known that it is created in the following way: [17] We don’t just do bars of Kendal mint cake. You can also buy it in fingers and discs with one of our lovely Kendal mint cake gift boxes. Take a look here to find some delicious treats and gifts. Why Name it Mint Cake?