Ingredients:

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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  10            ounces  flour
  3             ounces  sugar
     1/2      teaspoon  bicarbonate
  1              pinch  mixed spice and ginger
  1                cup  milk
  4             ounces  lard
  1                     egg
  1           teaspoon  treacle
  4             ounces  dried fruit
  1              pinch  salt

Preparation:

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).

Nutritional Information:

479 Calories (kcal); 22g Total Fat; (40% calories from fat); 8g Protein; 64g Carbohydrate; 55mg Cholesterol; 56mg Sodium