Fortnum & Mason afternoon tea recipes: Welsh cakes - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Food Fortnum & Mason afternoon tea recipes Welsh cakes By You Magazine - April 18, 2021 Known as picau ar y maen in Welsh, meaning ‘cakes on the stone’ (they were originally cooked on a heated bakestone), these are incredibly easy to make (perfect for children too), endlessly versatile and deeply delicious. You can serve welsh cakes hot or cold, with butter, jam or ice cream, as a mid-morning snack or as a stand-alone pudding. David Loftus MAKES 20 TEA MATCH Wonderful with a malty Assam tea. Try Fortnum & Mason’s Royal Blend. 425g plain flour, plus extra for dusting 1 tsp baking powder 1⁄4 tsp ground allspice A pinch of salt 120g unsalted butter, at room temperature, cut into cubes, plus extra for frying 120g lard or vegetable shortening, cut into cubes 175g caster sugar 120g raisins 2 eggs, beaten 30ml whole milk Sift the flour, baking powder, allspice and salt together into a large mixing bowl. Add the butter and lard or vegetable shortening to the flour mixture then rub together with clean fingertips for 5-7 minutes, until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Stir in the sugar and raisins and combine. Mix the eggs and milk together, then pour into the flour mixture and stir until it forms a stiff dough. Bring the dough together with your hands in the mixing bowl until it forms a ball. Turn the dough on to a lightly floured surface and roll it out to a thickness of 1.5cm. Dip a 6cm round cutter in flour and cut 20 rounds from the dough. Melt a knob of butter in a heavy-bottomed frying pan over a medium heat and fry the rounds in batches for 3-4 minutes on each side, until crisp and golden. Serve warm, or keep in an airtight container for up to a week and reheat gently before serving. Now buy the book Our recipes are from Fortnum & Mason: Time for Tea by Tom Parker Bowles (Fourth Estate, £20). To order a copy for £17.60 until 2 May call 020 3308 9193 or go to mailshop.co.uk/books. Free p&p on orders over £20. All the teas listed here can be bought at fortnumandmason.com. Recipes: Roger Pizey, Executive pastry chef at Fortnum & Mason. Photographs: David Loftus. RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR Kids can eat for free at these restaurants during October half-term How to make the viral negroni sbagliato with prosecco at home 7 Halloween recipes with serious hex factor Popular in Food 6 sunshine-yellow baking recipes with golden grains May 20, 2018 Donna Hay’ s sneaky bolognese June 10, 2018 Louise Thompson’ s lower-fat sticky toffee pudding June 29, 2018 Calling all cocktail lovers – this £12 Co-op vodka is one July 23, 2018 5 delicious new baking trends to try this season August 31, 2018 People are campaigning for the return of this popular Celebrations chocolate September 27, 2018 This is the best turkey to buy for Christmas 2018 October 11, 2018 Chrissy Teigen’ s French toast with whipped honey and ricotta topping November 17, 2018 Snowy angel cake December 23, 2018 Souped up 6 delicious healthy soup recipes with calorie counts January 27, 2019 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved