I first discovered “Devon Yeast Cakes” at South Molton Pannier Market, on the Women’s Institute baked goods stall. They were made for sale by a venerable old lady who had been taught to make them by her mother many years before. On the one occasion I met her before she passed away, she told me that they were standard breakfast fare on farms in the area at harvest time when she was a girl. They were made to fill up the farm workers before the start of the working day, and then again with their mid afternoon tea. Cheap and easy to make, she said some of the “boys” could almost eat their own body weight in them!