Any1 got the recipe for rockcakes/rockbuns?

Question

Had a look on BBC recipe finder but there is nothing there!

Answer 1

http://www.letscook.co.uk/rockcake.html
this all i could find, hope it helps

Answer 2

Rock Buns

Ingredients
200g (8 oz) Self Raising Flour
100g (4 oz) Margarine
100g (4 oz) Sugar
75g (3 oz) Currants
1 Egg
Milk as required

Method
(1) Mix flour with a pinch of salt and rub in the margarine.

(2) Stir in the sugar and currants.

(3) Mix to a stiff dough with the egg and milk.

(4) Place in rough heaps on a greased baking tray.

(5) Bake in the oven at 200°C, 400°F or Gas Mark 6, for 15-20 minutes.

Answer 3

MMMMN yummy- I love them. Try this recipe......... (very similar to Richard above but less details....)

Basic idea is as follows:
Rub margarine into flour.
Add sugar, fruit & egg.
Bake.
Takes approximately: 10 min work, 20 min cooking, 50 min total.
Ingredients
Sultanas 200 g
Margarine 100 g
Moist brown sugar 75 g
Self raising flour 200 g
Egg 1

You will need
Oven. Mixing bowl. Knife to mix with. Scales. Baking sheet. Greaseproof paper. (if no paper you can just rub margarine onto the baking sheet)

Detailed Instructions
Turn on oven to warm up to 200°C.
Rub margarine into flour in mixing bowl ( repeated picking up handfuls of the mix & spreading between fingers and thumbs)until the mix looks like breadcrumbs (I am sure you can remember this from school!
Wash hands (they get really messy!!).
Mix in all the other ingredients.
Line baking tray with greaseproof paper or rub with margarine
Put balls (about 4 cm diameter) of the mix on the tray.
Bake 15 to 25 min (ready when inside no longer looks damp) You will be able to see because the buns become firmer
Allow to cool until hard.

They can also be made with white sugar but are less tasty.
Use moist dried fruit like sultanas or raisins not small hard currants otherwise they break your teeth

Answer 4

Summary
Rub margarine into flour.
Add sugar, fruit & egg (shell removed).
Bake.
Takes approximately: 10 min work, 20 min cooking, 50 min total.
Ingredients
Sultanas 200 g
Margarine 100 g
Moist brown sugar 75 g
Self raising flour 200 g
Egg (chicken) 1

Equipment
Oven. Mixing bowl. Knife to mix with. Scales (or just estimate). Baking sheet. Greaseproof paper.

Detailed Instructions
Turn on oven to warm up to 200°C.
Rub margarine into flour in mixing bowl (i.e. repeated pick up handfuls of the mix & use thumbs to smear it out across fingers) until the mix looks like breadcrumbs.
Wash hands (before everything else in the kitchen gets greasy).
Mix in all the other ingredients.
Line baking tray with greaseproof paper.
Put balls (about 4 cm diameter) of the mix on the tray.
Bake 15 to 25 min (ready when inside no longer looks raw & damp &/or a skewer pushed into a cake does not come out with stuck on dough).
Allow to cool until hard.
Miscellaneous
They can also be made with cheaper white sugar but will, of course, be less tastey.
The original recipe used half as much fruit which is cheaper but, of course, less fruity.
Use moist dried fruit like sultanas or raisins not small hard currants.
They can be topped with coarse-grain sugar &/or a half a glace cherry each (but I prefer them without).
I've heard that 'chunky hard fruity buns' has an accidental double entendre in the USA dialect of English. Sorry but this page is written in the UK dialect of English so if you were looking for muscular buttocks you have come to the wrong place; enjoy the cakes instead

Answer 5

Traditional rock cakes
Ingredients
225g/8oz self-raising flour
2tsp baking powder
110g/4oz soft margarine
55g/2oz sugar
110g/4oz mixed dried fruit
55g/2oz currants
1 egg
1-3 tbsp milk
demerara sugar, for sprinkling
oil for greasing



Method
1. Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6. Lightly grease two baking sheets.
2. Place the flour and baking powder in a large bowl, add the margarine and rub in with the fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Stir in the sugar and fruit. Add the egg and 1 tbsp milk and mix to a stiff mixture. If dry, add a little more milk. Using 2 tsps, shape the mixture into about 12 rough mounds on the prepared baking sheets. Sprinkle generously with demerara sugar.
3. Bake in the preheated oven for about 15 minutes or until pale golden brown at the edges. Cool on a wire rack.