Lardy Cake
Lardy Cake

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, lardy cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Lardy cake is not from the North of England. It is from Wiltshire in the South West where pig farming was common and. Lardy cake, also known as Lardy bread, Lardy Johns, Dough cake or Fourses cake is a traditional bread from England.

Lardy Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Lardy Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lardy cake using 12 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Lardy Cake:
  1. Prepare Bread Mix
  2. Get 350 g strong white flour
  3. Make ready 30 g lard
  4. Take 100 g warm water
  5. Make ready 100 g warm milk
  6. Make ready 10 g sugar
  7. Get 10 g yeast
  8. Take 2 g salt
  9. Make ready Filling
  10. Take 150 g soft brown sugar
  11. Make ready 150 g lard
  12. Make ready 50 g sultanas

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Instructions to make Lardy Cake:
  1. Mix the dry bread ingredients together with the lard in a large bowl
  2. Mix the milk and water together, and add the yeast to it. Wait 10 minutes to allow it to activate.
  3. Add the liquid to the dry bread mix and form into a ball. Kneed the dough for 10 minutes.
  4. Cover the bowl and leave in a warm place to rise. It should have doubled in size after 45 minutes or so.
  5. Turn the oven on to 210 C
  6. For the filling, mix the lard and the sugar into a paste and separate into three equal parts
  7. Line the base of your cooking tray with one part of the paste. I used a 25cm diameter silicon mould.
  8. Once the dough has risen, roll out to a rectangle and in the middle third add one part of paste, and half the raisins.
  9. Fold each uncovered third over the centre, rotate the dough and roll out back to the original rectangle shape.
  10. Add the remaining paste and raisin as before and repeat the folding.
  11. Shape the dough into a sausage and lay it as a spiral in the baking tray. Cover and allow to rise again.
  12. When doubled in size, place in the over for 45 minutes. Remove and allow to sit for 30 minutes to allow the caramelised base time to firm up.

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