Lardy cake

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Lardy cake

Lardy cake, also known as Lardy bread, Lardy Johns, Dough cake or Fourses cake is a traditional bread

Bread

Bread is a staple food prepared by baking a dough of flour and water. It may be leavened or unleavened. Edible salt, fat and a leavening agent such as yeast are common ingredients, though bread may contain a range of other ingredients: milk, Egg , sugar, spice, fruit , vegetables , Nut or seeds ....
from England

England

Lard

Lard is Domestic pig fat in both its Rendering and unrendered forms. Lard was commonly used in many cuisines as a cooking fat or shortening, or as a Spread similar to butter....
, flour

Flour

Flour is a powder made of cereal grains. It is the main ingredient of bread, which is a staple food for many civilizations, making the availability of adequate supplies of flour a major economic and political issue at various times throughout history....
, sugar

Sugar

Sugar is a class of edible crystalline substances, mainly sucrose, lactose, and fructose. Human taste buds interpret its flavor as sweet. Sugar as a basic food carbohydrate primarily comes from sugar cane and from sugar beet, but also appears in fruit, honey, sorghum, sugar maple , and in many other sources....
, spices, currants and raisins. Lardy cake can be eaten any time of day as a snack, but is most commonly consumed in the afternoon with tea

Tea

Tea refers to the agricultural products of the leaves, leaf buds, and internodes of the Camellia sinensis plant, prepared and cured by various methods....
or coffee

Coffee

Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted seeds, commonly called coffee beans, of the Coffea. Caffeinated coffee has a stimulating effect in humans....
. Lardy cakes are very rich and sweet and eaten traditionally for special occasions—in particular, high days and holidays and harvest festivals.

The cake is made by layering thinly rolled dough with the other ingredients.

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Lardy cake, also known as Lardy bread, Lardy Johns, Dough cake or Fourses cake is a traditional bread

Bread

England

Lard

Lard is Domestic pig fat in both its Rendering and unrendered forms. Lard was commonly used in many cuisines as a cooking fat or shortening, or as a Spread similar to butter....
, flour

Flour

Sugar

Tea

Tea refers to the agricultural products of the leaves, leaf buds, and internodes of the Camellia sinensis plant, prepared and cured by various methods....
or coffee

Coffee

Elizabeth David

Elizabeth David Order of the British Empire was a pre-eminent British cookery writer of the mid 20th century.David is considered responsible for bringing French cuisine and Cuisine of Italy cooking into the British home ....
, a Hampshire

Hampshire

Hampshire , sometimes historically Southamptonshire, Hamptonshire, , or the County of Southampton, is a Counties of England on the south coast of England....
cookbook

Cookbook

A cookbook is a book that contains information on cooking, and/or a list of recipes. It may also contain information on ingredient origin, freshness, selection and quality, e.g., the Slow Food movement's ark of taste criteria....
advises that the cake be turned upside down after baking

Baking

Baking is the technique of prolonged cooking of food by dry heat acting by Heat convection, and not by Thermal radiation, normally in an oven, but also in hot ashes, or on hot stones....
"so the lard can soak through." It is theoretically possible to substitute butter

Butter

Butter is a dairy product made by churning fresh or fermentation cream or milk. It is generally used as a spread and a condiment, as well as in cooking applications such as baking, sauce making, and frying....
, but as Elizabeth David puts it: "How could they be Lardy cakes without lard?". A variation of the Lardy cake is the Dripping cake

Dripping cake

Dripping cakes, also known as Drippers, are a traditional bread from Great Britain. The main ingredients are dripping, flour, brown sugar, spices, currants and raisins.The ingredients are mixed thoroughly and baked in an oven....
, which is made with beef dripping

Dripping

Dripping, also known as beef or pork dripping, is an animal fat produced from the fatty or otherwise unusable parts of cow or pig carcasses....
instead of lard.

Lardy cake originated in Wiltshire where it remains popular as it does in the West Country

West Country

The West Country is an informal term for the area of south western England roughly corresponding to the modern South West England government region....
and Suffolk

Suffolk

Suffolk is a Non-metropolitan counties of England of Historic counties of England in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south....
(where it is sometimes called Fourses Cake). These are areas of England where pig farming (of which lard is a product) has traditionally been a mainstay of the agricultural economy. Despite contemporary concerns about high-calorie

Food energy

Food energy is the amount of energy in food that is available through digestion.Like other forms of energy, food energy is expressed in calories or joules....
, high-fat

Fat

Fats consist of a wide group of compounds that are generally soluble in organic solvents and largely insoluble in water. Chemistry, fats are generally ester of glycerol and fatty acids....
foods, it is still widely eaten, appearing on the menu at the Royal United Hospital

Royal United Hospital

The Royal United Hospital is located in the Weston, Bath suburb of Bath, Somerset, about 1? miles from Bath city centre.The Royal United Hospital takes its name from the union of the Bath Casualty Hospital founded in 1788 and the Bath City Dispensary and Infirmary founded in 1792....
, Bath and as an adornment to the famous garden parties at Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of the British monarch. Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is a setting for state occasions and royal entertaining, and a major tourist attraction....
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