Ingredients

• half a pound plain flour
• three ounces sugar
• two ounces butter
• two ounces lard
• one egg
• half a cupful milk
• half a teaspoonful salt
• half a teaspoonful bicarbonate of soda

Method

• Cream the fat and sugar, add the egg and beat together.
• Gradually add the flour, salt and soda and mix with a little milk to give a fairly soft consistency. (Some two ounces of currants may be added, if desired.)
• Put the mixture in a greased cake tin and bake in a moderately hot oven for approximately one hour.

A cake specially prepared for the mid-morning break in the Lampeter district.

Lampeter, Cardiganshire.