Yorkshire Cooking: Fat Rascals
 
 
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Recipe type: Baking
Serves: 6 large buns
Ingredients
  • 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
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 200c’ mark 6
  2. Sift the flour and mixed spices into a mixing bowl and stir in the sugar
  3. Rub in the butter until it resembles fine breadcrumbs
  4. Stir in the dried fruit, then add the beaten egg, lemon juice, cream/milk and combine to form a sticky but firm dough
  5. Divide the mixture into six equal parts
  6. Pat them into generous rounds onto a greased baking tray
  7. Decorate with glace cherries and almonds
  8. 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/