Found mine. It's a souvenir tea towel I use for covering food, but the recipe is pretty much how I remember my Mum's. I do have a Welsh recipe book somewhere, can't find it, so can't make a comparison. Yours look a bit more interesting.
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Love love love Bara Brith!
sep 11, 2025, 1:07 pm • 2 0 • view
Bit too heavy on the dried fruit for me, but you've got me thinking about a fruit-free lardy bread now.
sep 11, 2025, 1:39 pm • 2 0 • view
Googling lardy bread!
sep 11, 2025, 2:01 pm • 0 0 • view
I think you need a particular type of seaweed for Laverbread!
sep 11, 2025, 2:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Not laverbread 🤢! Lardy bread aka lardy cake, a delicious brick of fat & flour, spoiled only by bloody raisins😋😋
sep 11, 2025, 3:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Sorry, it was the 1lb of lard in the bara brith made me think of it.
sep 11, 2025, 3:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Definitely a less complicated recipe. The nutmeg and mace are essentials for me. And no raisins/currants. Hate them with a passion.
sep 11, 2025, 12:56 pm • 3 0 • view
I'm a 👎for raisins as well. At least sultanas are big enough to pick out & flick across the table. Funny enough, my Mum was very anti-spice (sigh), but the one she would use was nutmeg. Sadly, it never made it into her Welsh cakes.
sep 11, 2025, 1:35 pm • 2 0 • view
Nutmeg was always good in them, but adding some mace really enhanced the flavor.
sep 11, 2025, 2:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Someone on the radio was saying that if you use nutmeg in your savoury dishes you should try switching to mace for an even better experience. Haven't tried yet.
sep 11, 2025, 3:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Highly recommended.
sep 11, 2025, 3:33 pm • 1 0 • view
poor innocent raisins???????
sep 11, 2025, 1:06 pm • 3 0 • view
They taste like iron to me. I grew up picking them out of Welsh cookies. Vowed I would never include them in any cookies I made.
sep 11, 2025, 1:34 pm • 2 0 • view
I read this as 'Welsh cockles' which takes me to a whole new level of horror.
sep 11, 2025, 3:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Eesh! 🤢
sep 11, 2025, 3:54 pm • 2 0 • view
9 pounds of barabrith is a bit disproportionate 😲
sep 11, 2025, 3:53 pm • 2 0 • view
It's so long since I used imperial measurements for baking it just didn't register with me. But now you mention it... 🤔
sep 11, 2025, 4:01 pm • 3 0 • view