The Lemon Slice

As you will probably have gathered from earlier blogs Mrs M and myself are not shy from the occasional cup of tea or two, and in Oz these have often been taken in nice cafes or cake shops.  Now it would seem rude if you are in a nice café or cake shop to only have tea so we have felt compelled to sample some cake with our tea.

Queue a small tangent -

Many of you will know that I met Mrs M at St. Andrews University where we did the same Geology degree, and we went back nine years later to get married there.  We like to get back to St. Andrews as often as we can to visit some old haunts, one of which is a pub called the Whey Pat and the other is a tearoom called MacGregors. 

When at MacGregors we will always have a lemon slice, which has a biscuit base covered with a lemon and coconut fondant toping covered in desiccated coconut.

Imagine our continued surprise when in almost every café we have been in in Victoria (from Castlemaine to Codrington) we see almost identical lemon slices for sale. 

As far as I am aware the lemon slice is particular to St. Andrews, so we are unsure whether this delight is a UK-Oz export or an Oz-UK import, but either way it has been a nice surprise for us with a cuppa.

Addendum - when researching the links for this post I have come across some disturbing news. It turns out that MacGregors has been replaced by a Sainsburys earlier on this summer.    

Mr M