Welsh Cakes

Ingredients for 6 servings:

• 450 g flour
• 1 packet of baking powder
• 1 pinch of salt
• 225 g butter or margarine
• 170 g sugar
• 85 g raisins
• 2 eggs
• some milk
• some clarified butter
• Powdered sugar for dusting

Instructions

Working time approx. 15 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 30 minutes; Total time approx. 45 minutes

according to the recipe of the Women’s Institute Beacon/Wales

Sift flour, baking powder, and salt into a bowl. Add the butter in small pieces and rub the mixture with your fingers until it resembles breadcrumbs. Add the sugar and raisins and mix well. In another bowl, beat the eggs with a little milk. Make a well in the flour mixture, add the egg and milk mixture, and mix with a fork until a light dough forms. Add a little more milk if necessary. Heat a pan and rub it sparingly with clarified butter. Loosely knead the dough into a ball and roll it out to about 5 mm thick. Using a serrated cutter or a glass with a diameter of about 5 cm, cut out circles. Place these in batches in the preheated pan and cook at very low heat for about 3 minutes on each side, turning only once and constantly monitoring the heat. Each side should be caramel brown. Cool on a wire rack and dust with powdered sugar. Best eaten lukewarm, but they’re also delicious cold. Be careful, they’re addictive!