Cacen Gneifo Welsh Shearing Cake Recipes

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."

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Categories     Dessert

Time 1h10m

Yield 1 cake, 1 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 9

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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From an old Welsh cake recipe collection, purchased in Wales in 1992. "Like harvest and sheep-shearing, threshing time was an occasion for feeding a hungry number of workers, and this is the cake traditionally made for it. Note the use of bacon dripping, often used in cake-making im Wales in the old days, for there was always plenty of it with bacon the most usual meat. You can of course substitute lard or vegetable fat if you wish, but the bacon fat does impart a distinctive flavour to the cake."

Provided by Mia in Germany

Categories     Dessert

Time 1h45m

Yield 1 cake, 1 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 8

Nutrition Facts : Calories 5033.2, Fat 117.8, SaturatedFat 38, Cholesterol 526.2, Sodium 3344.2, Carbohydrate 923.3, Fiber 36.1, Sugar 515, Protein 102

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