December 17
Thank you to culinary historian Brigitte Webster for today’s tasty Advent Calendar treat.
Brigitte specializes in the 16th century, and runs Tudor cookery classes and weekends at her Tudor guesthouse in Norfolk.
Twelfth Night Cake
Recipe from the Historic Royal Palaces. Brigitte has adapted it, reducing the amounts, to make it suitable for her bread making machine.
Ingredients
- 500g flour
- 170g currants
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp ginger
- ¼ tsp nutmeg
- 3 ground cloves
- 170 ml milk
- 170 ml ale
- 37g butter
- ½ tbsp. sugar
- 2 tsp dry yeast
Method
Put all the ingredients into the bread maker and set on “dough with raisins” programme.
I also added the all necessary “bean” ( I used a dark dried bean) to the currants for authenticity. (The person who finds the bean in their slice is the “King” for the day) Bake in a cake tin until done (about an hour medium heat) and then decorate with a sugar glaze. I have also gilded the cake in edible gold spray for extra ‘bling’.
For more info on Brigitte and her cooking visit www.tudorexperience.com, you can also find her on Facebook as Tudor & 17th century Experience, Twitter as @tudorfoodrecipe and Instagram as tudor_experience