Yorkshire Cooking: Fat Rascals
Author: Colin Neville
Recipe type: Baking
Serves: 6 large buns
- 250g self-raising flour, sifted
- 1 teaspoon sweet mixed spices
- 75g caster sugar
- 100g unsalted butter, chilled and diced
- 125g mixed dried fruit
- 150ml double cream, milk, or crème fresh (I used half milk/half cream)
- I teaspoon lemon juice
- Ingredients for decoration (almonds and glace cherries)
- I beaten egg
- Preheat the oven to 200c’ mark 6
- Sift the flour and mixed spices into a mixing bowl and stir in the sugar
- Rub in the butter until it resembles fine breadcrumbs
- Stir in the dried fruit, then add the beaten egg, lemon juice, cream/milk and combine to form a sticky but firm dough
- Divide the mixture into six equal parts
- Pat them into generous rounds onto a greased baking tray
- Decorate with glace cherries and almonds
- Coat with milk and bake for 20 minutes or so until golden brown and firm.
Recipe by JAQUO Lifestyle Magazine at https://jaquo.com/fat-rascals/
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