10 oz Flour
4 oz Lard
3 oz Sugar
Egg 1/2 ts Bicarbonate
1 ts Treacle
Pinch mixed spice and ginger 4 oz Dried fruit
1 c Milk
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.