Overnight Cake

Description

Ingredients

• half a pound plain flour


• four ounces butter or lard


• three or four ounces mixed dried fruit


• one teaspoonful cinnamon


• one teaspoonful ginger


• half a teaspoonful bicarbonate of soda


• one tablespoonful vinegar


• milk

Method

• Rub the fat into the flour and work in the other dry ingredients.


• Mix gradually with milk to give a fairly soft consistency.


• Dissolve the soda in the vinegar, pour it over the soft batter mixture and stir briskly.


• Allow this mixture to stand overnight.


• Line a cake tine with greaseproof paper, pour the mixture into it and bake in a moderately hot oven for about one and a quarter hours.

Caernarfon.