OUR VIDEO ON MAKING VEGAN WELSH CAKES | PRESS PLAY This vegan welsh cake recipe has a remarkable similarity to the traditional Welsh Cake by substituting the dairy based products with plant based ones. A vegan recipe does not have to taste fundamentally different if the appropriate amount of research has gone in to making …

This recipe for Welsh Cakes, (picau ar y maen, pice bach, cacen gri or teisen radell) is a family one, taken from my family’s Welsh side. A recipe in fact from my Great-Grandmother who lived and worked in the coal mining valley’s of South Wales in the late 1800s – she lived in a tiny …

Cacen Gri is a large Welsh griddle cake (like a large, single welsh cake) baked on a traditional Welsh griddle or bakestone (planc) this particular recipe is from Bala in Merioneth. As this recipe is so quick to make and bake it was prepared when bread was suddenly in short supply, or when friends were …

This is a traditional recipe for an Irish Soda Bread recipe, one of the simplest and quickest of all the breads to make. A soda bread is delicious with soup, or spread with a little butter and cheese – it is such a rustic bread that anything which is hearty will go well with it, …

This is a very traditional Irish recipe for a Barm Brack, (Báirín Breac) a delicious fruit bread, where the name Barm is the old word for yeast. A barmbrak is eaten all year round, but particularly at Hallowe’en when it has a little gold-ring and a small silver-coin baked into it. It was thought that …

Welsh pancakes are also known as ‘crempog’ (see this traditional crempog or crempog furum recipe for more regional recipes) and are made with an acidic buttermilk and a rising agent (which used to be yeast before bicarbonate of soda replaced it). The history of these types of pancakes stretch a long way back in Wales, …

A traditional and classic English pancake is described by Dorothy Hartley in her 1954 book, ‘Food In England’, “abroad pancakes are usually open and piled up together. In England our pancakes are symbols of our insular detachment, for each is rolled up by itself, aloof, with its own small slice of lemon.” This pretty much …

This Welsh Cake recipe is from Glamorgan, (where they are also called Pica Bach) the recipe uses butter and adds in a little mixed ground spice before being baked – to eat authentically take two cakes, spread one with a little butter and  jam (or stewed apples and brown sugar) and place the other cake …

These pale golden Buttermilk Scones are from a traditional recipe from Ireland and can be baked on a traditional baking plate (see our shop). With the buttermilk and added bicarbonate of soda these have a little more acidic tang to them than traditional English scones, but they go just as well with butter and jam …