Raabs the Bakers on Essex Road

From lardy cakes to simple scones: classic bakes that need no reinvention

The relentless desire to jazz things up is to blame for the disappearance of fond favourites. But there’s always pleasure to be found in old-school cakesSign up here for our weekly food newsletter, FeastI got into a small and pointless argument with a friend recently when she announced that a certain bakery chain (expanding across England with astonishing speed) was the only place in her London neighbourhood where she could buy scones. Then I thought about where, if I wasn’t going to make my...