My friend Dianna brought me doubtless the most necessary 5 dozen Welsh Cakes that she made that day. The recipe comes from her friends’ husbands’ mother, or used to be it grandmother, one thing like that, I’ve never had the pleasure to review out this kind of tasty treats, but it indubitably wasn’t take care of first and most considerable witness. The first ingredient I asked her while this cramped spherical unappetizing circle of no topic, ‘so what’s in these?’ I notify. She gave me the lowdown on doubtless the most necessary method she ragged, but I gathered couldn’t imagine what it can also taste like, pondering I’d must scrub this down my throat to be in a local to swallow it, I offered to originate some tea first, I used to be stalling.
Nicely the inevitable finally occurred, with my tea in a single hand and the Welsh cake in the opposite I used to be about to recall my first chunk, the cramped bid in my head used to be telling me, just wash it down rapid with the tea, smile and pronounce her they’re correct.
Mmmmm, mmmmm, mmmm, used to be all I’m in a position to also notify, they were gratifying! It’s onerous to inform the taste, maybe like a pastry or immediate crust more or much less texture. That is an infinite instance of the old asserting, ‘looks to be like can also even be deceiving’ I didn’t need the tea to scrub these down but it indubitably used to be a estimable accompaniment.
Welsh Cakes can also even be served with butter, jam or sprinkled with sugar.
Welsh Cakes
- 4 cups flour
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg
- ¼ pound butter or margarine
- ½ pound shortening
- ½ pound dried currants
- 2 eggs beaten
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- ⅓ cup evaporated milk
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Mix collectively all dry method add butter and shortening, prick in with a pastry blender unless crumbly. Dart in currants. Mix eggs lemon, and milk collectively, shuffle into dough like making a pie crust, add only sufficient to originate dough workable. On a floured ground roll dough out to a ¼ disappear thickness. Decrease into 3 disappear rounds and fry without rotund in a flat pan over medium warmth, unless browned on both side.
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Sprinkle with granulated sugar or icing sugar when cooled.
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Strive all these change additions:
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Cinnamon
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Chocolate chunks
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Lemon zest
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Coconut
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Dried cherries, cranberries, or blueberries
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Pistachio
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White chocolate
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Apricots, chopped
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Raisins