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Eccles cakes

Eccles cakes — a community recipe on Potlikkr.

Ingredients

Method (preview)

  1. 1

    For the pastry, sift the flour and salt into a large bowl and add the butter. Mix the butter around with a large metal spoon to coat it in flour. Be careful to keep the butter in lumps.

  2. 2

    Mix 180-200ml/6-7fl oz chilled water and lemon juice together in a jug and gradually pour it into the flour and butter mixture.

With the pastry vertically on the board in front of you, fold the bottom third of the pastry up onto the middle third...

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