Easter Recipes > Easter Cakes

How to make Easter cakes:
A traditional recipe for delicious, spicy small cakes at Easter. Nowadays we would be more likely to call them biscuits.



Ingredients

2 cups self raising flour
8 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons currants
1/2 teaspoon mixed spice
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 large organic egg
1 tablespoon brandy
2 teaspoons organic lemon juice
(see measure conversions for more information)

Method

- Rub the butter into the flour.
- Add the sugar and spices and the lemon juice.
- Beat the egg with the brandy and add to the flour mixture to make a paste.
- Roll out the paste very thinly on a floured board and cut out into rounds of about 5 inches across.
- Bake at 220 degrees centigrade (see temperature conversions) for about 10 minutes.
- Remove and cool.
- These biscuits burn very easily so be vigilant.
- Traditionally they were served decorated with primroses and violets.




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