Stottie Cake

Name: Stottie Cake
Prep time: 1 h 10 min
Cook time: 18 min
Total time: 1 h 28 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 4 cups strong white flour; 7g dried yeast; 1 tsp salt; 1 tsp sugar; 300ml warm water; 2 tbsp lard or vegetable fat

A thick, doughy bread roll from northeast England — the classic partner to pease pudding. Pricking the dough all over before it bakes is what stops it puffing up unevenly in the oven.

Total time

88 min

Prep

70 min

Cook

18 min

Difficulty

easy

Cuisine

British

vegetarianvegan

Ingredients

4 cupsstrong white flour

7gdried yeast

1 tspsalt

1 tspsugar

300mlwarm water

2 tbsplard or vegetable fat

Instructions

Mix flour, yeast, salt and sugar. Rub in lard. Add water to make a soft dough.

Knead 10 minutes. Rest 1 hour.

Knock back and shape into large flat round loaves 2cm thick.

Prick all over with a fork. Rest 30 minutes.

Bake at 220°C for 15-18 minutes. The base should sound hollow.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement. Some ingredients in this recipe couldn't be matched to a reference value, so treat this as a rough estimate.

Calories

Protein

0.7g

Fat

0.1g

Carbs

1.8g

Fiber

0.5g

Sodium

478mg

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