Last weekend we got a taxi home from Cork city and after my few glasses of Sticks pinot noir ( really a nice wine) I was hanging over the passenger seat quizzing the taxi driver on his favourite food. What does he love to eat? I just had to know. Anyway he told us that his friend regularly gives him two rabbits and he ‘sticks ‘em in a stew and bubbles ‘em away with a few carrots and onions and two hours later tis handsome‘.
8ozs sultanas
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Cover the stale bread with cold tea( I made a pot using 2 normal teabags and 1 chai teabag) and leave to soak for an hour. Squeeze dry by pressing mixture in a sieve over the sink.
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Sift the flour with the baking powder, add the sugar, then rub in the butter add spice mix.
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Add sultanas to well squeezed bread and mix well, turn into flour mixture and mix together well.
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Add the well beaten egg in the milk and stir, then add the marmalade and leave aside
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Roll out one portion of pastry to fit a baking tin(10,12,2) grease well, make sure to prick pastry with fork evenly on top and bottom.
6. Spread mixture evenly over pastry.
7. Cover with second portion of pastry.
8. Pinch the side together to seal it. prick the top with a fork.
9. Bake in oven @ 180 for 1 hour 45 mins.
10. Leave cake in tin to cool. Then ice with thick water icing and cut into slices once set.
This recipe really does make a massive amount of cake but it does freeze well!
Lilly x
What a handsome lead-in to that recipe. I fear the word may be contagious. I don’t suppose it has any calories?
Mmmm, I would really like some cake now. “Handsome” must be a real Cork thing, I’ve a friend who enjoys a “handsome yogurt” in the evenings… Lilly, I love your blog and Fancy Vittles! Always makes me want to cook pretty things!
Mise: I think it is contagious! Calorie wise I think it accounts for 23% of your daily adjective intake.
Maeve: That’s great, I can’t wait to see all the stuff you post about too! No pressure!x
Hi Lily – I found my way to your blog via Mise’s – I’ll follow it as it speaks to me with the cakes, the crafts and the profile – like me a hundred years ago! Anyway – drop by my blog, I’m only across the county border and you might like to follow it. I have some of my favourite cake recipes on it, and some jammy ones too. (I also have a Facebook Cakes, Bakes and Tasty Treats Group with more of the same!)
Catherine.
Sorry Lilly – misspelt your name – too tired on Friday evening to pay attention to detail – that’s what a week’s work does to me!
Catherine.
Oh, I am so hungry now. My mouth is watering.
Thanks for visiting my blog today and leaving a nice comment. I love it when you do.
hugs
Sissie
I am slavering over the keyboard!
Hi Lilly!
Visiting from Jayne’s neighborhood. What a charming blog you have. I’ve come to stay. Even though I have a feeling you won’t be good for my diet
KarenG
my very best friend is from cork and she says handsome everytime she sees me….but not necessarily about me …she also says langer and uses the word pants to describe outer wear i.e trousers when in fact everyone else in the country and the world for that matter use it to describe underwear…i ‘ve told her that that description is going to get her into trouble sometime….she said she can’t wait.
hey lilly…..dying for a slice of this, if you could wing a piece out of the freezer and this way please! and perfect pastry action too after you saying it wasnt your forte! oh and keep on buying the farmers journal, rock on! xx
I love that adjective! It says so much about the character without even seeing Joe le Taxi. (And who’d have thought she’d end up with Johnny Depp eh?) I also have cup and saucer envy… I have recently started collecting (by that, I have two) pretty little china cups, in the hope that one day it will lead to a pretty little kitchen cupboard, which means there must be a pretty kitchen in a pretty house. Since I have none of that at the moment I am starting with the cups. I also love the sound of that cake… tis well handsome!
I’ve never heard of Chester cake, but it sounds wonderful. I just love your new banner and am very inspired, too. I made a beautiful cake for my hubby’s birthday last week. It looked beautiful but tasted yucky! Won’t make that mistake again! I just have to figure out what the mistake was.
I just love your descriptions Lilly! I think I even have the accent down handsomely, and the cake sounds and looks fantastic. Happy Monday! xx
Catherine, Karen G and Amanda welcome! It’s great to see new people visiting!x
Jaboopee: I always say pants! I thought it was an Irish thing! Your friend is right to keep saying it!
Jayne: It all starts with pretty tea cups so beware! Just make sure you use them because they’re no use to no body sittin’ on a shelf!
Aden: I followed a recipe for brownies last week and they were a complete disaster.Some recipes just aren’t tested properly, at least thats my excuse! x
savage – my nan used to make this; gonna try it this weekend.
Adrian, Welcome! I hope you do try it. I’m going to be saying savage now all day!
thanks Lilly. keep up the good work…
I grew up and went to school in Chester (Ancient Roman city,birthplace of Constantine) I
along with other school chums ran through the town to Quaintways at the Chester Cross to save the twopence of Bus Fare, for a slice of Chester Cake.It was Originally made for the Alms Houses,and the ‘Navies’ making the Railway and digging the canals.My Father was Irish and it came from the Irish for Gur.It keeps very well,and is very filling.Thanks!
Trying this to day
Hi Esther, Sorry only seeing this now! You must add the marmalade & egg in with the milk! I hope you did that and it worked out well. This is a very old post but the complete recipe is in my first book Make Bake Love. Thanks!x
Hi Lily, could I make the Chester cake without the pastry? I’ve tried and failed many times to make pastry, it’s either too dry or too wet and never tasty.
Hi Sile,
I’ve never made it without the pastry, I’d imagine it would be like some sort of pudding and you’d have to spoon it out of the dish! My best advice would be buy a good quality pastry and use that! It will be worth it!x