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Welshcakes
Preparation info
- Makes about
20
- Difficulty
Easy
Appears in
Published 1998
These are somewhere between pancakes and biscuits, and much as I think I don’t like dried fruit enormously, I can wolf down plates of these. This recipe comes from the grandmother of a Welsh girl, Heulwen, who helped with my children after my second baby was born. And these were an immensely comforting part of that time.
Ingredients
Method
Rub the butter into the flour as you would if making pastry, then stir in the sugar, spice and dried fruit. Add the egg to make a soft but not sticky dough. Form a disc, cover with clingfilm and leave in the fridge for a minimum of 20 minutes.
Roll out on a floured surface to a thickness of about ¾cm, and cut out your little cakes; you will need to re-roll and so forth but that shouldn’