Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, lardy cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Lardy cake is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Lardy cake is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
Lardy cake is a traditional English tea bread enriched with lard, sugar, spices and dried fruit. It originates from Wiltshire and is commonly found throughout the West Country. Lardy cake is not from the North of England.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook lardy cake using 14 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Lardy cake:
- Take 450 g strong white flour
- Prepare 15 g lard
- Get 25 g caster sugar
- Make ready 21 g yeast
- Make ready 300 ml lukewarm water
- Prepare For the filling
- Get 75 g lard
- Prepare 75 g soft brown sugar
- Get 180 g currants and/or raisins
- Make ready 25 g chopped peel
- Take 1 tsp mixed spice
- Prepare For the glaze
- Prepare 2 tsp sunflower oil
- Make ready 2 tsp caster sugar
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Instructions to make Lardy cake:
- Grease a 25x20cm tin or, as I did, two slightly smaller ones.
- Add flour and salt to bowl and rub in the lard.
- In a bowl cream the yeast with half the milk and allow to stand for 5-10 minutes.
- Add the rest of the water to the mix and add to the flour. Mix until a smooth dough.
- Turn out onto a floured surface and knead for 5-10 minutes. Place in a bowl an cover, or put in a prover, until the dough doubles in size.
- Knock back the dough and turn out onto a floured surface. At this point split the dough if you are using two tins.
- Roll the dough into a rough rectangle. Slightly smaller than the tin to be used.
- With half the lard flake the bottom two thirds of the dough.
- Cover the lard with half the fruit, sugar and spice.
- Fold the top third down and the bottom third up. Use a roller to seal the edges.
- Rotate the dough 90 degrees and repeat the roll out, flaking, fruiting and folding. Finally roll the dough to be just smaller than the tin.
- Cover or put in a prover to allow to double in size. While proving heat the oven to 200c/gas 6.
- When doubled in size. Use a sharp knife to score crisscrossed lines across the top and brush with the the oil. Sprinkle with the sugar. You will need to be quick to prevent the dough from from deflating.
- Cook for 30-40 minutes until golden brown.
- Allow to cool slightly. Then cut into thick slices and serve.
Lardy cake, also known as Lardy bread, Lardy Johns, Dough cake or Fourses cake is a traditional bread from England. The main ingredients are lard (specifically freshly rendered pork lard), flour, sugar, spices. Know one really knows where the recipe originates from but Lardy Cake has been popular in Wiltshire and the West Country for. After testing your recipes for lardy cake, for which I thank you all once more, it is with a good deal of embarrassment that I discover a lardy cake recipe in the very book I raved about only two weeks ago. Add lardy cake to one of your lists below, or create a new one.
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