I’m Just Wild About Saffron (Cake), Cornish Saffron Cake to be Precise.

Public domain photo by Nenniu — Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,

When I lived in England during the mid 80s I had a roommate in our military dorm who one day after one of his excursions out into the nearby cities brought back a Cornish Saffron cake. He had this and some clotted cream and he shared it with me. The cake was dense and moist and the clotted cream *see note at bottom, (which reminded me of cream cheese) was just the…