English Dessert Recipes

Traditional English Dessert Recipes For Desserts That Will Brighten Your Day

English Toffee Recipe

1-1/4 cups white sugar, 1 cup corn syrup, 3 oz butter. Boil to hard ball stage. Don't stir too much. Add vanilla to taste and put in buttered dish.

English Pancake Recipe

1 pint milk, 1 tablespoon sugar, 2 eggs, 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, pinch of salt. Sift the flour, salt, and baking powder together. Add to this the well-beaten eggs and sugar, and mix all with the pint of milk. Mix all ingredients thoroughly. If too thick, add more milk.

Put a small piece of butter in a hot frying pan, then spoonfuls of the batter. When lightly browned, turn over, then fold on hot dish. Serve with powdered sugar and a squeeze of lemon.

English Lunch Cake Recipe

Cream one and a half cupfuls of butter and the same of sugar with three eggs; add one and a half cupfuls of milk, four cupfuls of flour, two cupfuls of currants, citron if liked, half a teaspoonful of mixed spices and a teaspoonful of soda. If baked in one loaf, it will take about an hour -- in two pans, about half an hour. --Mrs. E. B. Plympton

English Fruitcake Recipe

1 lb butter, 1 lb light brown sugar, 9 eggs, 1 lb flour, 2 teaspoons mace, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 1 teaspoon soda, 2 tablespoons milk, 3 lb currants, 2 lb raisins, seeded and finely chopped, 1/2 lb almonds, blanched and shredded, 1 lb citron, thinly sliced and cut in strips.

Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, and beat thoroughly. Separate yolks from whites of eggs; beat yolks until thick and lemon colored, whites until stiff and dry, and add to first mixture. Then add milk, fruit, nuts, and flour mixed and sifted with mace, cinnamon, and soda.

Put in buttered deep pans, cover with buttered paper, steam three hours, and bake one and one half hours in a slow oven, or bake four hours in a very slow oven. Rich fruit cake is always more satisfactory when done if the cooking is accomplished by steaming.

English Mincemeat Pie Filling

5 lb suet, 5 lb apples, 4 lb citron, 1-1/2 lb blanched almonds, all finely chopped; 5 lb raisins seeded, 5 lb currants, 5 lb light brown sugar, 1/2 teaspoon mace, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, 2-1/2 cups brandy. Cook raisins, suet, apples, citron, currants, and sugar slowly for one and one-half hours; then add almonds, spices, and brandy.

English Fruit Pie Recipe

Fill a pudding dish with fresh fruit, and enough sugar to sweeten, but do not put sugar on the top as it tends to make the pastry heavy. Add a little water, brush around the edges of the dish with water, then take a narrow strip of pastry and put round, brush this lightly with water, then cover the whole top with pastry, mark round the edge, and bake in oven suitable to the pastry used.

If the pastry is cooked before the fruit, place the pie in a cooler part of the oven to finish, with buttered paper over the top.

English Pound Cake Recipe

1 pound butter, 1 pound sugar, 1 pound flour, 8 eggs, 1 wineglass brandy, 1 pound raisins, 1 pound sultanas, 1 pound currants, 1/2 pound prunes, 1/4 pound dried cherries, 1/2 pound candied peel, 1/4 pound almonds, 1 teaspoon mixed pudding spice, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 teaspoon browning.

Beat butter and sugar to a cream, mix all the prepared fruit together -- the almonds shredded, the cherries cut in half, and the prunes into small pieces -- and beat the eggs until light.

Now mix alternately into the butter and sugar, the flour, eggs and fruit, when this is thoroughly well mixed, add the spice, brandy, browning, and soda. Mix well again, then put the mixture into prepared tin, and bake in moderate oven from four to five hours.

One cup of butter rubbed to a cream, with two cups of the very darkest brown sugar; add four eggs, one at a time, stirring each one well; then add a cupful of black molasses and one cup of hot, strong coffee in which you have previously dissolved one even-teaspoonful of soda. (Strain before adding to the batter.) Sift four and one-half cups of flour, twice, adding two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar in last, half a cupful of flour, sifting again before adding.

Add the following spices: nutmeg, mace, allspice and cloves, half a teaspoonful of each, one large cupful of raisins, seeded, and half a cupful of finely cut or chopped citron, dredge the raisins with flour, using some of which you have already sifted, not using more than four and a half cups in all.

Butter your cake tins and seed your fruit before beginning to make the cake; whole spices freshly pounded in a mortar are preferable to ground spices. This quantity makes one good-sized cake and twelve gems, which if iced prettily makes quite a display.