rock cakes

Name: Rock Cakes
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: English
Ingredients: 1/2 pound(s) flour; 1/2 teaspoon(s) baking powder; 1-1/2 ounce(s) butter, room temperature; 1-1/2 ounce(s) sugar; 2 ounce(s) currants or sultanas; 1 - egg; a little - milk

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Joan Woodward

Toronto, ON

Updated on Jul 7, 2015

My English cousin used to make these regularly for tea-time and I'm afraid they lived up to their name! You could peg a squirrel with one of her rock cakes and it would never bother your cherry or plum tree again!

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prep time 15 Min

cook time 15 Min

method Bake

yield 8 serving(s)

Ingredients

1/2 pound flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1-1/2 ounce butter, room temperature
1-1/2 ounce sugar
2 ounces currants or sultanas
1 - egg
a little - milk

How To Make rock cakes

Step 1

Beat the butter into the flour, then add rest of dry ingredients and currants.

Step 2

Mix to stiff dough with well-beaten egg and milk.
Step 3

Bake in fairly hot oven 15 minutes.
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