Eccles Cake
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Eccles Cake Recipe
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Eccles Cake
Ingredients
- 2 oz. butter
- 4 oz. brown sugar
- 2 oz. candy peel
- 8 oz. currants
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 1 tsp. nutmeg
- 1/2 lb. flaky pastry
Instructions
- Cream butter and sugar, then add other ingredients.
- Roll pastry thin and cut into 4-inch rounds.
- Put a little bit of mix on center of each.
- Wet edges and punch and gather to form ball.
- Turn over and flatten until currants show through.
- Mark the tops.
- Sprinkle with sugar and bake at 400 degrees.