Currant Cake ,
Currant Cake Recipe
This currant cake recipe is a perfect recipe for making use of your leftover pastry. It’s very much an approximation, as it depends how much pastry you have left over. It’s surprising, even a small amount of pastry can make a generous sized currant cake. My mum’s been using this recipe for years.
Currant Cake Recipe
- Pre-heat oven to 180°C / 350°F / Gas Mark 4
- Roll your remaining pastry into a round – to approx 5mm thickness
- Place a handful of currants, 1 – 2 tablespoons of sugar, and a few small knobs of butter onto the middle of the pastry
- Bring the outside of the pastry to the centre (like a purse) and press together so all the currants are covered
- Turn the pastry over and roll it out again to approx 5mm thickness
- Brush the top of the pastry with milk and sprinkle with plenty of brown sugar
- Cook for approx 10-15 minutes or until golden brown
- Leave to cool and serve with butter!
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I think this is the original chorley cake, slightly different from the eccles cake, my mum made this but rolled the currants in with the pastry
I’d love to know where this came from as I think it is very regional – my mum is from the yorks / lanc border and only came accross it when she met my dad who is from the rossendale valley. I’ve also never seen it anywhere else – in fact, thought granny had made it up untill I saw yours above.
I think you might be right! The recipe came from my dad’s mum, and dad was brought up in Rawtenstall/Haslingden, in Rossendale. What a small world, it’s a shame my grandma’s not around to ask where it originated from, if you know anymore I’d love to hear
Thank you for posting this – my granny ( also from lancashire) used to make this all the time and I think it’s time I introduced it to my kids. I know I could have worked it out but lovely to see it written down. brings back lots of lovely memories
Thanks for your lovely comment – glad it brings back lots of good memories. My grandma used to make it for us too