10 oz Flour 1 ts Treacle
4 oz Lard 1 x Pinch mixed spice and ginger
3 oz Sugar 4 oz Dried fruit
1 x Egg 1 c Milk
1/2 ts Bicarbonate 1 x Pinch salt
Cream the sugar and fat. Mix in the egg and add the remainder of the
ingredients, having desolved the bicarbonate in the milk.
Bake in a greased tin for about 3/4 hour in a moderately hot oven.
Gas control, Gas MArk 5 (375F).
Alternate:
3 teacupsful of flour; 1 teacupful of butter; 1 teacupful of sugar;
2 teaspoonful of baking powder; 2 eggs; milk to mix; a little dried fruit.
Rub the butter into the flour, add sugar, baking powder and well beaten
eggs and milk if necessary – it must be kept fairly stiff.
This mixture is enough to fill two sandwich tins. Bake for 30-40 minutes.
Cut in half, spread with butter and eat hot. Oven control, Gas Mark 5
(375F).
Croeso Cymreig.
Yields
6 servings