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.