Editing Pontefract cake (section)

==Production and design==
Originally, the sweets were embossed by hand with a stamp, to form their traditional look (the workers who did this were known as "cakers" and were able to produce upwards of 30,000 per day), but now they are usually machinery formed. The embossed stamp was originally a stylised image of [[Pontefract Castle]] with a raven on the top bar, which is thought to have been in use for almost 400 years.<ref>{{cite book|title=Chronicles of Old Pontefract|year=1905|isbn=1152214659|page=203|author=Lorenzo Padgett|publisher=Old Hall Press, Leeds}}</ref> When the first [[secret ballot]] in the United Kingdom was held in Pontefract on 15 August 1872, the ballot box used was sealed using a Pontefract cake stamp from Frank Dunhill's factory, which shows the image of a castle and an [[owl]].<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/WryVwsknTr-aa4IQ-ID9iQ
|title = Pontefract's secret ballot box, 1872
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