BANBURY CAKES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 550, 3 July 1909, Page 11

BANBURY CAKES.

These cakes takotheir name from the email town, of Banbury, in Oxfordshire, England. Their excellence is attested by the following story:—A gontloman, ou amving at the station of Banbury, called a boy and said to him. Get mo a Banbury cake, my boy, and get one for yourself; here is fourpence. The boy, came back in a short hme, mnnching one of these delicious cakes with great reli6h, 'and with the utmost coolness, handed twopence back to the gentleman, saying: "Very sorry, sir, but they had only one cake left." Now, as to the making. Roll ont puff paste naif an inch think and cut into pieces; then roll each piece again till it becomes twice the size; put 6ome "Banbury meat" m the middle of one side; fold the other over it, and pinch into an oval shape, flatten it with the hand at the top, letting the seam be* quite at tho bottom; brush the tops over with white of egg, and epnnJkle with sugar; bake in a moderate oven. , To make the filling, or meat, as it is called, cream a quarter of a pound of butter; thjn mix with it half a pound of candied orange peel, out fine; one pound of currants, a quarter of an ounce of cinnamon and a quarter of an ounoe of allspice; mix all together, and keep in a jar till wanted for nee.