Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, "v" eccles cakes. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook "v" eccles cakes using 5 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make "V" Eccles Cakes:
- Get 250 g flaky pastry
- Prepare 50 grams butter
- Prepare 100 grams currants
- Take 25 grams brown sugar
- Get 25 grams cut mixed peel
Have a look at these bad boys: Those, my dear friends, are Eccles Cakes from the St John Bakery. And they are absolutely out of this world good. Melt butter in sauce pan, add the fruit , sugar and peel mix together. Turn mixture into basin and allow to cool.
Instructions to make "V" Eccles Cakes:
- Melt butter in sauce pan, add the fruit , sugar and peel mix together.
- Turn mixture into basin and allow to cool.
- Roll out pastry 5mm thick, cut into large rounds with a pastry cutter.
- Make small rounds for top
- Place a spoonful of filling on each round, damp the edges of pastry and draw them together to enclose filling.
- Turn smooth side up and roll lightly till about 7cm in diameter. Cut tops to show filling, brush with milk or beaten egg. Sprinkle with castor sugar.
- Bake in hot oven 230°C/450°F for about 20 mins
Surprisingly both Heston's Eccles Cake recipe and the St John Eccles Cake recipe by Justin Gellatly are very similar. We've gone step by step, starting with Juston Gellatly's Eccles Cake recipe from St John and then moving on to the Heston Blumenthal Eccles Cake recipe. An Eccles cake is a small, round cake filled with currants and made from flaky pastry with butter, sometimes topped with demerara sugar. Eccles cakes are named after the English town of Eccles, historically part of Lancashire, but now in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester. It is not known who invented the recipe, but James Birch is credited with being the first person.
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