Cuisine
Welsh Food
Welsh cakes, bara brith, lamb and leeks.
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 · 7 hr 30 min
Bara Brith
Wales' tea-soaked fruit loaf: moist, lightly spiced and best sliced thickly with salted butter.
Recipe · 2 hr 15 min
Bara Planc (Welsh Bakestone Bread)
A soft white bread cooked slowly on a griddle instead of in the oven: the old farmhouse bread of Wales.
Recipe · 2 hr 5 min
Cawl
Wales' slow-cooked lamb and leek broth, served with bread and a wedge of Welsh cheese.
Recipe · 50 min
Cawl Cennin (Welsh Leek and Potato Soup)
A simple, chunky soup of leeks, potatoes and stock: humble Welsh cooking built around the national emblem.
Recipe · 40 min
Crempog (Welsh Pancakes)
Thick buttermilk pancakes cooked on a bakestone, buttered and stacked high.
Recipe · 1 hr 15 min
Faggots in Onion Gravy
Savoury pork and liver meatballs baked in a rich onion gravy: a thrifty classic of Wales and the Black Country.
Recipe · 1 hr 5 min
Glamorgan Sausages
Meat-free Welsh sausages of Caerphilly cheese, leek and breadcrumbs, crumbed and fried until golden.
Recipe · 30 min
Laverbread with Bacon and Cockles
Laverbread oatmeal cakes fried in bacon fat with cockles: the traditional breakfast of south-west Wales.
Recipe · 55 min
Tatws Pum Munud (Welsh Potato and Bacon Stew)
A thrifty Welsh one-pan supper of potatoes, onion and bacon gently simmered in stock. Quick to put together and cheap to make.
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.
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Part of British Isles cuisine.