Ingredients

• one pound flour
• half a pound butter
• six ounces brown sugar
• half a pound currants
• half a pound raisins
• a little spice
• three eggs
• half a pint boiling milk
• half a teaspoonful bicarbonate of soda

Method

• Rub the fat into the flour and work in the other dry ingredients.
• Beat the eggs and pour into the dry mixture.
• Gradually add the boiling milk (with the soda dissolved in it) and beat the mixture well.
• Put into a greased cake tin and bake in a hot oven.

Whitchurch, Glamorgan.