CACEN GNEIFO (WELSH SHEARING CAKE)

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From an old Welsh cake recipe collection, purchased in Wales in 1992. "Sheep shearing time was, and still is, one of the major social occasions in Welsh rural life, for in the difficult hill districts especially farmers help each other with the rounding-up and shearing of their enormous flocks of sheep on a rota basis. The host farm kitchen is busy for days beforehand preparing pies and tarts and cakes and baked meats ready to feed the shearers. This cake, with its caraway seed flavour, is traditional to the shearing time."

Provided by Mia in Germany

Categories     Dessert

Time 1h10m

Yield 1 cake, 1 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 9

8 ounces flour
6 ounces brown sugar, moist
4 ounces butter
1/4 pint milk
1 egg
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons caraway seeds
1/2 lemon, rind of
1 pinch nutmeg

Steps:

  • Preheat oven to 350°F.
  • Sift the flour with the baking powder, mix in the other dry ingredients.
  • Rub in the butter, then work in the beaten egg and milk.
  • Bake in greased tin lined with greased paper at 350 F for 1 hour.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 2460.1, Fat 104.2, SaturatedFat 63, Cholesterol 446.9, Sodium 1357.1, Carbohydrate 352, Fiber 8.6, Sugar 166.7, Protein 36

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