Lardy Cake
Lardy Cake

Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, lardy cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Mix together the flour, salt and yeast in a mixing bowl. Add three-quarters of the water and hand-mix the. Mix the flour, salt, sugar and yeast in a bowland rub in the lard. Make a well in the middle and pour in the water, bit by bit- mix to a soft dough.

Lardy Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Lardy Cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

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

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

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. Best serves warm with a warm cup of tea. I live in Hampshire and the next county to me is Wiltshire, home of the lardy cake.

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.

Best serves warm with a warm cup of tea. I live in Hampshire and the next county to me is Wiltshire, home of the lardy cake. For me, this is where the best lardy cake are to be found - most bakers sell it crammed with as much fruit, sugar and lard as they can. Forget the diet and just dive in. 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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