How To make Banbury Cakes
3/4 c Light cream
1/2 c Butter
1/4 c Sugar
1 ts Salt
1 pk Yeast
1/4 c Water; tepid
2 Eggs, plus 1 white; lightly
-beaten 1/4 ts Nutmeg; freshly grated
1/4 ts Cinnamon
1/4 ts Cloves
1/8 ts Mace
4 c Sifted unbleached white
-flour; up to 4 1/2 cups 1/3 c Currants
OPTIONAL ICING:
3 tb Confectioners' sugar;
-dissolved in 1 tb Milk;and
ds Anise extract To make a very good Banbury CakeTake four pounds of currants, and wash and picke them very cleane, and drie them in a cloth: then take three egges and put away one yolke and beate them, and straine them with good barme, putting thereto cloves, mace, cinamon and nutmegges: then take a pinte of creame, and as much mornings milke and st it on the fire till the cold bee taken away: then take flower and put in good store of cold butter and suger. Then put in your egges, barme and meale and worke them all together an houre or more: then save a part of the past, and the rest breake in peeces and worke in your currants: which done, mould your cake of what quantity you please: and then with that past which hath not any currants cover it very thinne both underneath and aloft. And so bake it according to the bignesse.:
Gervase Markham, The English Hous-wife Banbury, a town in Oxfordshire, is still famous for its cakes, but today the most popular ones are flavored with rum. Still, Markham's cakes hold their own some three hundred fifty years after they were created. Having no ale barm, we'll use yeast. Banbury cakes, serve warm with butter and jam, are delicious at breakfast or tea. 1. In a saucepan, scald cream. Add butter, sugar, and salt. Stir to
dissolve. Pour mixture into a large bowl and cool to lukewarm. 2. In a small bowl, dissolve yeast in water.
3. Add yeast, eggs, and spices to cream mixture.
4. In a large bowl, combine 4 cups of flour and currants, stirring until
currants are lightly coated. 5. Add flour and currants to cream
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Recipe Eccles cakes
Recipe - Eccles cakes
INGREDIENTS:
●25g unsalted butter, softened
●25g light brown sugar
●25g mixed peel
●75g currants
●1 tsp mixed spice
●6 sheets Pampas butter puff pastry
●2 tbs milk
●1 eggwhite, beaten
●1 tbs coloured sugar
or caster sugar
How to make an Eccles cake
Learn how to make this north of England tea time favourite
Eccles Cakes ◆ 1930s Recipe
★ About: Eccles cakes have been around for at least 500 years. Local to the English town of Eccles in Lancashire, these little treats of sugar-topped flaky pastry encompassing a sweet centre of spiced dried fruit were originally baked in celebration of the Church’s various religious festivals. Standing the test of time, they’ve remained a popular seasonal or teatime treat nationwide despite rarely being found on the shelves of bakeries these days (where we are, at least. We don’t get out much).
The cakes themselves go way back and so does this recipe for them, although, not quite THAT far. We spotted it in the Local Dishes chapter of our copy of Elizabeth Craig’s Cookery Illustrated and Household Management (1936) which we have been bursting to try really all of the recipes from, and made it the first on our hit list from it.
Golden, melt-in-your-mouth pastry with a good crunch of sugar (the only real sugar added here), and juicy dried fruit… YUM. We’ll be making these again!
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★ Ingredients:
To make the Flaky Pastry:
• ½ lb / 227 g of Plain Flour
• ½ tsp. Baking Powder
• 3 oz / 85g of Butter
• 4 oz / 113 g of Lard
• A pinch of Salt
• Water
For the Filling:
1 ½ oz / 43 g Butter
3 oz / 85 g Currants
2 oz / 56 g Mixed Peel
Nutmeg
Sugar
★ Full instructions:
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★ Book Details: Cookery Illustrated and Household Management (1936) By: Elizabeth Craig Publisher: Odhams Press Limited (Long Acre, London, W.C.2, England, U.K.)
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Chiffon Cake (yield: two 8-in round layers)
1.75 c (210g) cake flour, sifted
1.5 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp fine salt
3/4 c (150g) sugar
1/2 c (100g) vegetable oil
6 egg yolks
1/2 c (113g) water
1.5 tsp vanilla
6 egg whites
pinch of cream of tartar
1/2 c (100g) sugar
1. Whisk together the oil, yolks, water, and vanilla in a mixing bowl.
2. Add cake flour, baking powder, salt, and first sugar and whisk to combine.
3. In the bowl of a mixer, whisk the egg whites with a pinch of cream of tartar until frothy. Add the second sugar one tablespoon at a time and continue to mix on medium-high speed until medium peaks form.
4. Gently fold the meringue into the first mixture.
5. Evenly distribute the cake batter between two 8-in cake pans that have been prepared with only a circle of parchment paper on the bottom (no grease!)
6. Bake at 350F for 30-35 minutes or until golden brown and a toothpick comes out clean.
7. Remove from the oven and let the cakes cool upside down on a sheet of parchment.
8. Once completely cool, remove the cakes from the pan.