Lardy cake
Lardy cake

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, lardy cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Lardy cake is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Lardy cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

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

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

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. This recipe comes from "Mary Berry's Complete Cookbook" and calls for large amounts of "white vegetable fat".

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.

I've always made this with lard (pork fat) purely because of it being. Gently press down on dough with rolling pin. 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.

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