Bacon Cakes

Bacon and pastry, what more can you need?

Ingredients

• Makes 8
• 7 rashers bacon (Streaky works just as well)
• 225 g (8 oz) self-raising flour
• pinch of salt
• 25 g (1 oz) English butter
• 75 g (3 oz) English Cheddar cheese, grated
• 150 ml (1/4 pint) milk
• 15 ml (1 level tbsp) tomato ketchup dash of Worcestershire sauce milk to glaze

Instructions

STEP 1:

1. Grill three rashers of bacon until crisp, then cut into small pieces.

STEP 2:

2. Sieve together the flour and salt into a bowl, rub in the butter until it resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add all but 1 5 g (1/2 oz) of the cheese and the crumbled bacon.

STEP 3:

3. Mix the milk, tomato ketchup and Worcestershire sauce together and add to dry ingredients.

STEP 4:

4. M ix to a soft dough and roll out to an 18 cm (7 inch) circle, brush with milk and cut into eight wedges. Arrange on a buttered, floured baking tray in a circle with edges overlapping. Sprinkle with the remaining cheese.

STEP 5:

Optional: Bake in the oven at 200°C (400°F) mark 6 for 30 minutes. Cut the. remaining bacon in half and roll up. Place rolls on skewer and grill till crisp. Use as garnish.