Welsh Cakes

Name: Welsh Cakes
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 48
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 4 teaspoons baking powder; 6 Tbsps butter, softened; 4 eggs; 946 milliliters all-purpose flour; 8 Tbsps milk; 473 milliliters raisins; 1 teaspoons salt; 355 milliliters white sugar; 6 Tbsps lard

Welsh Cakes is a vegetarian recipe with 48 servings. This recipe covers 2% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This dessert has 100 calories, 2g of protein, and 2g of fat per serving. If you have milk, sugar, eggs, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 45 minutes.

Instructions

Sift flour, baking powder and salt into bowl. Put in butter and lard and mix until resembles fine breadcrumbs. Stir in sugar and currants or raisins. Beat the eggs lightly and add to flour mixture with just enough milk to make a firm dough similar to shortcrust pastry.

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Shortcrust Pastry

Fine Breadcrumbs

Baking Powder

Currants

Raisins

Butter

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Egg

Lard

Milk

Salt

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Bowl

Chill dough 1 to 2 hours.

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Dough

Roll the dough to 1/4 inch on floured surface and cut with 3 inch rounds.

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Dough

Roll

Bake the cakes on a greased griddle or frying pan (I use my electric skillet with just a little non-stick spray) over low heat until golden brown. Cool and sprinkle with sugar. These also freeze well.

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Sugar

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Frying Pan