Lardy Cake

Name: Lardy Cake
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 4 cups flour, for dough; 150g lard; 1 cup sugar; 1 cup dried fruit

Lardy Cake/LAR-dee keyk/

About this dish

A rich, sweet bread laden with lard, sugar, and dried fruit, baked into sticky layers.

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Ingredients

🌾4 cups flour, for dough

🧈150g lard

🍬1 cup sugar

🍇1 cup dried fruit

Method

Serves 2

Make a yeasted bread dough and let it rise.

Roll out the dough and dot with lard, sugar, and dried fruit.

Fold and roll several times to layer the fat and fruit throughout.

Shape into a tin and let proof again.

Bake at 190°C (375°F) until golden and sticky on top.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Lardy cake is a traditional English bread, historically made to use up excess lard from pig butchering.

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