I’ve just been inspired by your piece to check my books and found the recipe for Somerset Easter Cakes in British Cookery edited by Lizzie Lloyd ( encyclopaedic tome of 600+ pages) … her version does indeed result in quite a thick, almost scone like biscuit / cake … will be very sustaining on the allotment later !
I have a recipe in my saffron book for St Keverne cakes which are similar (although that recipe uses a combination of plain and self raising flour). Does Lizzie's recipe include raising agent? But yes they are very sustaining. I shall look forward to having one of my biscuits once I finish pricking out my seedlings later today.
I’ve just been inspired by your piece to check my books and found the recipe for Somerset Easter Cakes in British Cookery edited by Lizzie Lloyd ( encyclopaedic tome of 600+ pages) … her version does indeed result in quite a thick, almost scone like biscuit / cake … will be very sustaining on the allotment later !
I have a recipe in my saffron book for St Keverne cakes which are similar (although that recipe uses a combination of plain and self raising flour). Does Lizzie's recipe include raising agent? But yes they are very sustaining. I shall look forward to having one of my biscuits once I finish pricking out my seedlings later today.
No raising agent at all ….