Sentence examples for fadge from inspiring English sources

Saffron buns and Chelsea buns, Cornish splits, lardy cakes and Sally Lunns, barm brack and bara brith, singing hinnies, rowies, stotties and fadge: these are baking's equivalents of the red squirrel, squeezed out of their natural habitat and left clinging on in a few ever-dwindling territories.

"It won't fadge" to mean "it won't do" has a certain satisfying mouthfeel, as a biscuit scientist might say.

For those south of the border unfamiliar with this delicacy, known as fadge or farls in Ireland, it is more like a flat bread than a fluffy teatime scone, traditionally made with leftover potatoes ("usually just after the midday meal, when [they're] still warm", according to F Marian McNeill's The Scots Kitchen) and cooked fast on a hot griddle.

Tattie scones, totties, farls or fadges: whatever you call them, how do you like them?