Lardy cake
Lardy cake

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, lardy cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Lardy cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Lardy cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have lardy cake using 14 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Lardy cake:
  1. Get 450 g strong white flour
  2. Get 15 g lard
  3. Prepare 25 g caster sugar
  4. Take 21 g yeast
  5. Take 300 ml lukewarm water
  6. Take For the filling
  7. Get 75 g lard
  8. Prepare 75 g soft brown sugar
  9. Prepare 180 g currants and/or raisins
  10. Get 25 g chopped peel
  11. Take 1 tsp mixed spice
  12. Make ready For the glaze
  13. Get 2 tsp sunflower oil
  14. Get 2 tsp caster sugar

There is hot dispute in southern counties as to which can boast the original recipe - but all must agree it's best served with a nice cup of tea as an afternoon snack. This recipe is taken from Too Good To Waste by Victoria Glass, Nourish Books. Drain off any excess tea from the fruit, then mix with the remaining lard, the mixed spice and sugar. How to Make Wiltshire Lardy Cake.

Instructions to make Lardy cake:
  1. Grease a 25x20cm tin or, as I did, two slightly smaller ones.
  2. Add flour and salt to bowl and rub in the lard.
  3. In a bowl cream the yeast with half the milk and allow to stand for 5-10 minutes.
  4. Add the rest of the water to the mix and add to the flour. Mix until a smooth dough.
  5. 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.
  6. Knock back the dough and turn out onto a floured surface. At this point split the dough if you are using two tins.
  7. Roll the dough into a rough rectangle. Slightly smaller than the tin to be used.
  8. With half the lard flake the bottom two thirds of the dough.
  9. Cover the lard with half the fruit, sugar and spice.
  10. Fold the top third down and the bottom third up. Use a roller to seal the edges.
  11. 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.
  12. Cover or put in a prover to allow to double in size. While proving heat the oven to 200c/gas 6.
  13. 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.
  14. Cook for 30-40 minutes until golden brown.
  15. Allow to cool slightly. Then cut into thick slices and serve.

Make and prepare the white bread dough. Gently press down on dough with rolling pin. A very traditional recipe from SW England - lardy cake is not for those on diets! It is a sort of layered dough cake thing with a sticky, crunchy glaze on the bottom. It seems to be similar to Cornish heava cakes.

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