As Pontefract Liquorice Festival makes a return this weekend, Laura Reid explores the history of the crop in the town, and how its use changed from medicinal to confectionary. Did you know with a ...

A street festival has taken place to celebrate the sweet-making history of a West Yorkshire town. Pontefract cakes are said to have been invented in the town by a local chemist in the 1760s and ...

First created as a medicine, liquorice cakes have been eaten throughout the centuries – and are an unlikely symbol of Yorkshire. (This year, we published many inspiring and amazing stories that made ...

Uvongo scribe Rob Fidler makes a meal of a plate of Pontefract cakes - complete with knife, fork and sticky fingers. HI FRIENDS, Romans and countrymen. Bend (sic) me your ears! What a week for people ...

Tangerine Confectionery has made its Wilkinson’s ‘Perfected Pontefract Cakes’ available in 190g pre-packed bags. The new pack features pictures of the Pontefract Cakes along with an artist’s ...

The liquorice fields may have disappeared from the countryside around Pontefract but at Liquorice Festival time the town celebrates its famous black sweeties in all sorts of ways. If you are wondering ...

In West Yorkshire, a small town is the birth home of one of Britain's oldest and most loved sweets and offers a blissful day out for the family. Home of the liquorice cake (which is actually a sweet), ...

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"When I was a kid 35 years ago, all the children in Pontefract chewed on liquorice sticks.” Farmer Rob Copley’s decision to plant a commercial liquorice crop, the first in Britain in more than a ...