Feb
Banbury Cake
rough puff pastry
3 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons sugar
half an organic egg
1 tablespoon cake crumbs
2 tablespoons mixed peel
4 tablespoons currants
a little allspice
a little extra sugar
Roll the pastry out to 1/8 of an inch thickness.
Cut the pastry into rounds 6 inches in diameter.
Cream the butter and sugar together and add the egg, cake crumbs, allspice, currants and
peel.
Place a little of this mixture into each pastry round.
Dampen the edges of each round.
Bring the edges up and press them together sealing in the butter sugar mix.
Place upside down onto a greased baking tray and press down a little.
Brush with water and sprinkle on a little sugar.
Bake at 220 degrees centigrade (see temperature conversions) for 30 minutes.