Sally Lunn

You could have knocked me down with a Sally Lunn.

And now the pair plan to franchise Sally Lunn's.

It is not to be confused with the Sally Lunn bun which also comes from Bath.

Our children love the sedan chair outside and the "house speciality", the filling "Sally Lunn Buns".

The Sally Lunn buns (a type of teacake) have long been baked in Bath.

We also like Sally Lunn's House (www.sallylunns.co.uk).

Sally Lunn was a young French Huguenot refugee who brought the recipe to Bath around 1680.

Opening this month: Sally Lunn's Bake Shop, on the ground floor level at the Princeton location.

The closest similar yeast bread is probably a Bath bun or a Sally Lunn bun.

In New Zealand they're often called a Sally Lunn, especially in the North Island.

Accordingly, the tea list at Sally Lunn's includes nearly 50 teas, including 24 fruit teas, all are served loose in teapots.

Sally Lunn's Restaurant and Tearoom, 164 Nassau Street, Princeton.

Bath merits a very minor footnote: it claims to be the birthplace of the Sally Lunn bun, a kind of lightly sweet, round brioche.

Today there are two Sally Lunn's - a second shop opened in Princeton two years ago - and no, you may not buy the chairs at either location.

C Map Sally Lunn's Famous Bun is synonymous with the city - it's been served at this superfrilly tearoom for three centuries.

Manchets are little made today with the traditional Bath bun and Sally Lunn bun amongst the best known contemporary styles still made commercially.

Toto and Billina followed behind them, behaving very well, and a little way down the street they came to a handsome residence where Aunt Sally Lunn lived.

The building, now known as the Sally Lunn Eating House at 4 North Parade Passage (formerly Lilliput Alley), Bath, is a medieval building.

With English fare served on bone china, afternoon tea served all day and antiques as décor, Sally Lunn's Tearoom and Restaurant in Chester is one of a kind.

It is sold only at a shop and restaurant called the Sally Lunn House; most other tearooms in the city serve the Bath Bun, basically a variation, distinguishable by the sugar topping and some currents.

Brought to the city in 1680 by Solange Luyon, a Huguenot refugee, the latter resembles a large brioche and is served "trencher style" at Sally Lunn's House in North Parade Passage.

The restaurant is named for an Englishwoman who tried to bake a brioche and came up with a new type of bread, a round loaf with a hint of sweetness (Sally Lunn bread, $3.95 a loaf).

The building was acquired in the 1930s by Marie Byng-Johnson who opened it as a tea-room specializing in Sally Lunn buns, promoted with a story that she had discovered an ancient document in a secret cupboard explaining that Mlle.

Robin Hood's Bay is the setting for the Bramblewick novels (Three Fevers, Phantom Lobster, Foreigners and Sally Lunn) by Leo Walmsley, who was educated in the schoolroom of the old Wesleyan Chapel, in the lower village.