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Banbury Cakes
3/4 c Light cream 1/2 c Butter 1/4 c Sugar 1 ts Salt 1 pk Yeast 1/4 c Water; tepid 2 Eggs, plus 1 white; lightly -beaten 1/4 ts Nutmeg; freshly grated 1/4 ts Cinnamon 1/4 ts Cloves 1/8 ts Mace 4 c Sifted unbleached white -flour; up to 4 1/2 cups 1/3 c Currants -------------------------------OPTIONAL ICING------------------------------- 3 tb Confectioners` sugar; -dissolved in 1 tb Milk;and ds Anise extract To make a very good Banbury Cake--Take four pounds of currants, and wash and picke them very cleane, and drie them in a cloth: then take three egges and put away one yolke and beate them, and straine them with good barme, putting thereto cloves, mace, cinamon and nutmegges: then take a pinte of creame, and as much mornings milke and st it on the fire till the cold bee taken away: then take flower and put in good store of cold butter and suger. Then put in your egges, barme and meale and worke them all together an houre or more: then save a part of the past, and the rest breake in peeces and worke in your currants: which done, mould your cake of what quantity you please: and then with that past which hath not any currants cover it very thinne both underneath and aloft. And so bake it according to the bignesse.--Gervase Markham, The English Hous-wife Banbury, a town in Oxfordshire, is still famous for its cakes, but today the most popular ones are flavored with rum. Still, Markham`s cakes hold their own some three hundred fifty years after they were created. Having no ale barm, we`ll use yeast. Banbury cakes, serve warm with butter and jam, are delicious at breakfast or tea. 1. In a saucepan, scald cream. Add butter, sugar, and salt. Stir to dissolve. Pour mixture into a large bowl and cool to lukewarm. 2. In a small bowl, dissolve yeast in water. 3. Add yeast, eggs, and spices to cream mixture. 4. In a large bowl, combine 4 cups of flour and currants, stirring until currants are lightly coated. 5. Add flour and currants to cream ----- |
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