Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for cherry lardy cake. We’ve charged up this old English dish with dried cherries instead of the traditional currants. Cooling the cake upside-down allows the ...

Simple: some regional recipes for lardy cake add currants or raisins, others just fat and sugar Credit: Photo: Martin Lee/Rex Features Christopher Howse is repelled by hot cross buns with Belgian ...

Don’t discard the rendered fat from a roast – it has unbeatable crisping qualities, and makes this traditional British dried fruit cake sing There was never any sourdough at the village bakery in ...

“Lardy cake is a traditional spiced fruit cake made in Wiltshire. While it is called a cake, it is more like a sweet spiced bread thanks to the yeast. The main ingredient is lard which was used in ...

This is a twist - literally - on a very traditional recipe. Two strands of fruit-studded dough are twisted together and baked to create a rich, sweet ring. Credit: Paul Hollywood Pies and Puds 1. Put ...