Eccles Cake Recipe | English Recipes
How to prepare "eccles cake"
eccles cakes
frozen flaky pastry
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons brown sugar
3/4 cup currants
2 tablespoons mixed candied peel, chopped
pinch of nutmeg
pinch of allspice
1 beaten egg white
sugar to sprinkle
preheat oven to 425 degrees f.
stir sugar into melted butter. add currants, peel, nutmeg and allspice.
roll out pastry very thinly and cut 6-inch rounds, using a saucer. heap filling in the middle of each round. (makes about 8 to 10 cakes - divide the filling between them.) dampen the edges, draw up the pastry over the filling, pinch together, turn over and flatten with rolling pin until a few currants just show through. make 3 small cuts on top of each cake. brush with egg white and sprinkle with sugar.
place on baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes or until golden.
