Recipe of Gordon Ramsay Lardy cake

Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, lardy cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Lardy cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Lardy cake is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

Lardy cake is a traditional English tea bread enriched with lard, sugar, spices and dried fruit. It originates from Wiltshire and is commonly found throughout the West Country. Simple recipes for cakes, biscuits, pies, puddings and desserts that celebrate Britain's glorious baking heritage, from <i>Great Birtish Bake Off</i> favourite, Mary-Anne Boermans. Lardy cake is not from the North of England.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have lardy cake using 14 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Lardy cake:

1. Get 450 g strong white flour
2. Take 15 g lard
3. Make ready 25 g caster sugar
4. Take 21 g yeast
5. Take 300 ml lukewarm water
6. Get For the filling
7. Prepare 75 g lard
8. Take 75 g soft brown sugar
9. Make ready 180 g currants and/or raisins
10. Take 25 g chopped peel
11. Take 1 tsp mixed spice
12. Get For the glaze
13. Take 2 tsp sunflower oil
14. Get 2 tsp caster sugar

Make a cup of tea and put your feet up with this naughty-but-nice classic cake recipe. Warm or cold, this recipe is sweet, filling and delicious. Lardy cake originates from Wiltshire, and in the West Country local bakers still make it to their own recipes, cramming in as much lard, sugar and fruit as they or their customers choose. A Lardy Cake is a bread into which spices, fruit and pieces of lard are mixed.

Steps to make Lardy cake:

1. Grease a 25x20cm tin or, as I did, two slightly smaller ones.
2. Add flour and salt to bowl and rub in the lard.
3. In a bowl cream the yeast with half the milk and allow to stand for 5-10 minutes.
4. Add the rest of the water to the mix and add to the flour. Mix until a smooth dough.
5. Turn out onto a floured surface and knead for 5-10 minutes. Place in a bowl an cover, or put in a prover, until the dough doubles in size.
6. Knock back the dough and turn out onto a floured surface. At this point split the dough if you are using two tins.
7. Roll the dough into a rough rectangle. Slightly smaller than the tin to be used.
8. With half the lard flake the bottom two thirds of the dough.
9. Cover the lard with half the fruit, sugar and spice.
10. Fold the top third down and the bottom third up. Use a roller to seal the edges.
11. Rotate the dough 90 degrees and repeat the roll out, flaking, fruiting and folding. Finally roll the dough to be just smaller than the tin.
12. Cover or put in a prover to allow to double in size. While proving heat the oven to 200c/gas 6.
13. When doubled in size. Use a sharp knife to score crisscrossed lines across the top and brush with the the oil. Sprinkle with the sugar. You will need to be quick to prevent the dough from from deflating.
14. Cook for 30-40 minutes until golden brown.
15. Allow to cool slightly. Then cut into thick slices and serve.

Lardy cake originates from Wiltshire, and in the West Country local bakers still make it to their own recipes, cramming in as much lard, sugar and fruit as they or their customers choose. A Lardy Cake is a bread into which spices, fruit and pieces of lard are mixed. The lard and sugar on the layers inside melt together and get gooey; the sugar on top gets crunchy. Know one really knows where the recipe originates from but Lardy Cake has been popular in Wiltshire and the West Country for. Lardy Cake is one of my favourite treats of all time.

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