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Bakestone Cake

Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil

Hanging bakestone Cardiff, 1880s

Griddle Cakes

The Recipe

You will need

  • one pound self-raising flour
  • quarter pound butter
  • quarter pound lard
  • one cupful sugar
  • one cupful currants
  • two eggs, well beaten
  • a little salt
  • a little milk

Method

  1. Rub the butter and lard into the flour and add all the other dry ingredients. 
  2. Mix with the beaten eggs and a little milk to make a soft dough. 
  3. Turn out on to a floured board, roll out, and cut into small rounds. 
  4. Grease the bakestone lightly and heat moderately.  (Sprinkle a little flour on it and if it browns fairly quickly, it has reached the correct temperature.) 
  5. Bake the cakes on it, allowing two or three minutes for each side.

Dowlais, Glamorgan.

Film/Recording

Oral history in Welsh: Richard Griffith Thomas of Llangynwyd, Glamorgan describing the bakestone and tripod. Mr Thomas was born in 1894.

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