Welsh Cakes - Cacenau Cymraeg

Welsh Cakes - Cacenau Cymraeg

For St David’s Day, 1^st March, or for tea time treats any day, best cooked on the griddle when the Rayburn is alight, but also fine on a heavy based pan with the gas down low… eat them fresh.

Heat up the griddle pan on a LOW gas.

Flour, self raising, 1lb

Butter, salted, 1 pack 250g

Sugar, 6oz

Mixed spice, ½ level tsp

In the food processor mix all the dry ingredients with the butter to make crumbs. Add:

Eggs, 2

Currants, a handful

Pulse to a dough, kneed together if necessary (you don’t want to chop up the currants). Roll out onto a floured board, to just under a centimetre. Griddle slowly until brown, turning once. Cool on wire rack, sprinkle with some:

Sugar, caster.

Serve warm with tea and Welsh conversation.

Maen nhw’n arbennig!

Chowder for Chow

Chowder for Chow

A good quick healthy one pot weekday meal

Serves 6

340g smoked haddock (undyed)

1 pk raw prawns (x27)

1pt semi skim milk

Poach for 10 mins until JUST cooked. Take out the fish and prawns and leave on a plate. Remove skin and any bones. Break into flakes. To the remaining milk, add:

1pt boiling water

1 chicken stock cube (or fish stock)

1 onion chopped finely

5 carrots chopped finely

5 potatoes peeled and chopped finely

1 sprig thyme

Peas, 250g

celery would be nice (optional)

Boil 15-20 mins until the potato is cooked, add:

Sweet corn, half tin

Berlotti beans, 1 tin

Cream, double, 4 tbsp – a good slosh (optional)

Pepper, freshly ground, lots

Cook for 5 mins,

Flour, plain 1 dsp, with 3dsp water to a paste, stir into cowder to thicken, taste it, add more pepper if necessary.

Parsley, a large handful chopped for garnish

Gary Rhodes who inspired this serves his with soda bread, sounds good doesn’t it?