Free Recipe Suffolk fourses Cake (English)
Recipe Type: C Recipes
Recipe Preparation: bake
Cooking Ingredients for Suffolk fourses Cake (English) Recipe
1-1/2 lb Strong flour
1/2 ts Salt
2 ts Mixed spice
1/2 oz Yeast
2 ts Sugar
3/4 pt Warm water
6 oz Lard
6 oz Currants
Suffolk fourses Cake (English) Preparation
This currant bread was eaten by farmworkers in the fields at teatime. Sift the flour, salt and spice together. Cream the yeast and sugar together with a little of the wazer ana aliow to sponge. Rub the lard into the flour, make a well in the centre and add the yeast rnixture. Stir in the remaining water to form a smooth dough. Turn out on a lightly floured surface and knead thorouhly. Cover and leave to rise in a warm place untzl the dough has doubled its bulk. Knead again, adding the currants so that they are well distributed in the douh. Divide the dough into two lightly greased 1 lb. loaf tins. Cover and leave to prove in a warm place. Set oven to 400/F or Mark 6; when the dough has risen to about l inch above the top of the tins bake for 45 minutes.While still warm brush the tops of the loaves with a little water or milk to give a slight sheen. Serve plain or spread with butter. Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V4 #270 by ray.watson <ray.watson@ukonline.co.uk> on Tue, 1 Oct 1996.
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Recipe Serves: 1
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