Cornwall: Cornish Tea Cakes

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      Title: Cornish Tea-Cakes
 Categories: Bread
      Yield: 8 Servings
 
      8 oz Self-raising flour
      4 oz Lard or margarine
      4 oz Currants
    1/2 ts Mixed spice
      1 oz Candied peel
      2 oz Sugar
    1/2 pt Milk
           Beaten egg to glaze
 
  
  Rub the fat in the flour, then add the currants, sugar, peel and mixed
  spice. Add sufficient milk to make into a soft dough. Roll out to
  half an inch thickness and cut to shape with a round cutter. Brush
  with beaten egg to glaze and bake at about 350F for 10 to 15 minutes.
  These are nice split and spread with butter.
  
 
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