Lardy cake
Lardy cake

Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, lardy cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Mix together the flour, salt and yeast in a mixing bowl. Add three-quarters of the water and hand-mix the. Lardy cake, also known as lardy bread, lardy Johns, dough cake and fourses cake is a traditional rich spiced form of bread found in several southern counties of England, each claiming to provide the original recipe. This lardy cake recipe from Victoria Glass is a traditional British favourite.

Lardy cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Lardy cake is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have lardy cake using 14 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook it.

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. Make ready 300 ml lukewarm water
  6. Make ready For the filling
  7. Prepare 75 g lard
  8. Make ready 75 g soft brown sugar
  9. Make ready 180 g currants and/or raisins
  10. Get 25 g chopped peel
  11. Prepare 1 tsp mixed spice
  12. Take For the glaze
  13. Prepare 2 tsp sunflower oil
  14. Get 2 tsp caster sugar

Turn out onto a floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic. Best serves warm with a warm cup of tea. 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.

Steps 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.

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. Our now famous lardy cake, has been sent, via Royal Mail, to Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall and many many place in between!., It is in fact Vegetarian. Now some say it isn't lardy cake, but you have Pork sausages, Vegetarian sausages, so this is Vegetarian Lardy Cake and we can honestly say, there have been absolutely no complaints, that these contains a solid vegetable fat/lard not animal fat lard. Also known locally as 'Shaley Cake' or 'Lardy Johns', it was traditionally served hot with afternoon tea on Saturdays and Sundays.

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