Ingredients

• three large cupfuls plain flour
• half a pound sugar
• half a pound bacon dripping
• a little bicarbonate of soda, dissolved in a little tepid water and buttermilk
• one pound dried fruit (currants and raisins)
• two or three eggs, well beaten
• buttermilk

Method

• Rub the fat into the flour and work in the other dry ingredients.
• Mix gradually with the beaten eggs and add sufficient buttermilk to give a fairly soft consistency.
• Grease a cake tin, put the mixture into it and bake in a fairly hot oven for approximately an hour and a half.

Llanerfyl, Montgomeryshire.