Eccles Cakes

Name: Eccles Cakes
Yield: Makes 12
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: caster sugar, for dusting; white of 1 egg, lightly beaten; 1 tbsp lemon juice; 1 tsp ground ginger; 1 tsp ground allspice; 1 tsp freshly grated nutmeg; 225 g/ 8 oz currants; 60 g/ 2 oz chopped mixed peel; 115 g/ 4 oz muscovado sugar; grated zest of 1 lemon; 450 g/ 1 lb frozen puff pastry; 30 g/ 1 oz butter

Preparation info

Makes
12

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Daily Mail Modern British Cookbook

By Alastair Little and Richard Whittington

Published 1998

About

These are easily made using frozen puff pastry.

Ingredients

450 g/ 1 lb frozen puff pastry
30 g/ 1

Europe
United Kingdom
Dessert
Baking
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 220°C/425°F/gas 7 and roll the pastry to a thickness of 3 mm / ⅛ inch, the