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While many (especially in the Boston area) are preparing to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day on March 15, Ireland’s neighbors in Wales get ahead of the game with their own patron saint’s day – St David’s Day – on March 1.

Instead of corned beef and cabbage, many Welsh celebrats enjoy the traditional Welsh soup known as cawl and, of course, Welsh rarebit. For those really in the know, there is no better way to sweeten the day than with traditional Welsh cakes from Copper Kettle Bakery in Westwood, MA.

A Welsh cake is griddled mix of scones, biscuits, and pancakes and they are delicious with butter and preserves (which Copper Kettle Bakery also sells) or flavored (as Copper Kettle’s are) with berries, nuts, and chocolate chips. Copper Kettle Bakery offers their traditional Welsh Cakes ready made or as a mix for you to make yourself.  They can be eaten cold or warmed and are delicious either way!

Though Copper Kettle baker Helen Coates no longer uses bacon fat to cook her Welsh Cakes pies (and emphasizes that customers need not use it either), she continues to capture the essence of the family recipe she has been using since she was four and customers continue to rave and to tell her that one taste of her cakes takes them on a trip to Wales (even if they have never actually been there!).

So before you go out and kiss some people in green (if you are both wearing masks that is), why not try a Welsh favorite and get another taste of the UK?

For Weslh cakes, go to https://copperkettlebakery.com.

And for information about St. David’s Day celebrations, try https://www.walesfoodfortnight.com/