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Tinker’s Cake

Gwaelod-y-garth, Glamorgan

Mrs Violet James cooking tinker's cake

The Recipe

You will need

  • one pound plain flour
  • eight ounces butter
  • six ounces demerara sugar
  • eight ounces shredded apple
  • a little salt
  • a little milk

Method

  1. Rub the butter into the flour and work in the apple, sugar and salt. 
  2. Mix with a little milk and knead to a fairly stiff dough.
  3. Roll out on a floured board to make large rounds of approximately one third of an inch thick. 
  4. Bake on a moderately hot bakestone for about three to four minutes on each side. 
  5. Then sprinkle with sugar and cut into squares.

Gwaelod-y-garth, Glamorgan.

  1. Alternatively, mix the above ingredients with a beaten egg and a little milk to give a softer consistency (similar to that of teisen lap) and bake in a hot oven.  Traditionally this mixture would be baked in the Dutch oven, in front of the fire.

Pen-tyrch, Glamorgan.

Film/Recording

Rhian Gay demonstrating a modern way of preparing dinca fala — apple cake.

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