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Currant Cake

Bardsey Island, Gwynedd

Loaf cake, the rich, yeast fruit cake baked for Christmas in the counties of south Wales.

Cacen gyrens would be one of the cakes prepared for Sunday tea on BardseyIsland.

Bardsey Island.

Cakes

The Recipe

You will need

  • short-crust pastry
  • currants
  • sugar
  • black treacle

Method

  1. Line an oven-proof plate with pastry, rolled out fairly thinly. 
  2. Cover with a thick layer of currants and add sugar and black treacle to taste. 
  3. Seal with a second layer of pastry and bake in a hot oven.
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