Cuisine

Welsh Food

Welsh cakes, bara brith, lamb and leeks.

Sliced bara brith, a Welsh fruit loaf — Photo: zingyyellow...! from Wales Cymru UK · CC BY 2.0 (cropped)

Welsh baking was built for the bakestone, a flat iron griddle that gives Welsh cakes their character. Bara brith, the 'speckled bread', is its tea-soaked loaf cousin.

Recipes

Welsh Food recipes

Recipe · 20 min

Welsh Rarebit

A savoury sauce of cheese, ale and mustard, spread on toast and grilled until bubbling and golden.

Recipe · 40 min

Welsh Cakes

Currant-studded griddle cakes, cooked on a bakestone and dusted with sugar.

Guides

Know-how

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A dresser displaying blue and white plates

Kitchen design

The Welsh Dresser: History and How to Style One

A short history of the Welsh dresser, and practical ways to style one so it looks lived-in rather than staged.

Kitchen & table

What you'll need

Buying guide

Griddles and Bakestones for Welsh Cakes and Farls

Part of British Isles cuisine.