We already know Scouse is one of Liverpool's most famous dishes - but the city also boasts a little known historic delicacy still remembered by generations from their childhood.
The Liverpool ECHO recently took a look back at the Wet Nelly cake - a treat modelled after a Nelson cake, a traditional Lancashire fruit cake. According to Speke Hall, the Wet Nelly started out life as a bun loaf.
Now it might not sound the most appetising by its name, but for certain generations, it was a popular cake families made at home or could buy in bakeries across the city. When the bun loaf went stale, shopkeepers are said to have put it in the shop window, trickling treacle over it and the heat from the sun on the window would make the treacle run creating a wetter texture - hence the name Wet Nelly.
