Jane Caldow – Scones at The Coffee Bean

Simon: Scones have been mentioned.

Jane: The scones, well that was in later days when Dot, her daughter she was there and her daughter who was … I don’t know if she’s been in touch but she ran The Coffee Bean for a number of years, a lady called Dot Cook did it for my aunt. She’s sadly not around but her daughter is certainly very much around. Yeah, the scones were fabulous.

I mean in the days when mummy was there, in the early days, it was again sandwich and cakes and somebody used to make beautiful cakes for them, chocolate and coffee gateaux and the coffee machine, the Kenco Coffee Machine. Putting it in and the coffee filtering through and we used to have three of those pots on the go.

Simon: And it was sort … I mean Cafés can be of different levels can’t they?

Jane: It was coffees, teas, we used to do milkshakes, soft drinks and sandwiches for lunch time, Welsh rarebit, you know, cheese on toast, poached eggs on toast, light snacks, sandwiches and cakes. It wasn’t exotic cream cakes but it was sponge cakes and biscuits, and yeah, nice cakes.

As I said, someone used to make the cakes for them and everything. This was the 1970s when things were very different (laughs).