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Cheese Cake

Gower

Tabletop churn

These cakes were baked by the Gower housewives, more especially on the farms when they had a plentiful supply of milk.

Gower Peninsula.

The Recipe

You will need

  • one and a half pints milk
  • one dessertspoonful rennet
  • two tablespoonfuls sugar
  • one egg
  • three ounces currants
  • one teaspoonful spice
  • short-crust pastry

Method

  1. Warm the milk, add the rennet and stir evenly. 
  2. Allow to cool and set. 
  3. Drain the curd through a muslin bag and add it to the beaten egg, sugar and currants.
  4. Roll out pastry into rounds. 
  5. Spread the mixture fairly thickly over one half of each round and fold the remainder of the pastry over it to make a small turn over. 
  6. Seal the edges and bake on a fairly hot bakestone.
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