Welcome to Tuesday at Ten - well it was when I started this blog but an hour has passed and I have spent most of that on the telephone chatting with my daughter.
Welcome to St. David's Day (Patron Saint of Wales) and my Welsh Heritage prompts me to wish you:
Dydd Dewi Sant Hapus/Happy Saint David's Day
A photo of my Welsh Flag and some glorious daffodils.
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and a recipe for Welsh Cakes.
Welsh cakes
Ingredients
- 225g/8oz self-raising flour, sieved
- 110g/4oz (preferably Welsh) salted butter
- 1 egg
- handful of sultanas
- milk, if needed
- 85g/3oz caster sugar
- extra butter, for greasing
Four easy steps to making the perfect treat for teatime. Serve with lashings of butter and jam.
Preparation method
- Rub the fat into the sieved flour to make breadcrumbs. Add the sugar, dried fruit and then the egg. Mix to combine, then form a ball of dough, using a splash of milk if needed.
- Roll out the pastry until it is a 5mm/¼in thick and cut into rounds with a 7.5-10cm/3-4in fluted cutter.
- You now need a bake stone or a heavy iron griddle. Rub it with butter and wipe the excess away. Put it on to a direct heat and wait until it heats up, place the Welsh cakes on the griddle, turning once. They need about 2-3 minutes each side. Each side needs to be caramel brown before turning although some people I know like them almost burnt.
- Remove from the pan and dust with caster sugar while still warm. Some people leave out the dried fruit, and split them when cool and sandwich them together with jam.
I am proud of my Welsh Heritage and share these with you with pride.
A good day today - Tuesday and a cool day today - a visit to the Dentist - Outstanding report - 6 months before I need to go back and at that time will require some work and a general antibiotic coverage. I think we are really putting it off because both Liz (my Dentist) and I are scared of the Stevens Johnson issue and the allergies. It is always lovely to catch up with Liz and to talk a while. She is great.
Off to Radiology for a chest Xray and then home again - all done in an hour and thanks to peaceful road traffic we were home again two hours after leaving. A nice start to the day.
I stopped what I was doing to join New Zealand in their time of silence for their earthquake ravaged city and the lives lost - a week has gone by and I am guessing for many of those people life has stood still.
Have a wonderful day - on this special Tuesday - each day is special - the sky is bluer, the grass greener and life so much sweeter for me.
Love and hugs and thank you for stopping by to read "The Musings from my heart."
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