Ingredients

• one pound and a half plain flour
• one pound and a half currants
• one pound sugar
• quarter pound butter
• half a pound lard
• half a teaspoonful nutmeg
• half a teaspoonful mixed spice
• half a teaspoonful baking powder
• quarter teaspoonful salt
• half a pint milk
• two eggs, well beaten

Method

• Rub the butter and lard into the flour and sugar and add all the other dry ingredients.
• Make a well in the centre of this mixture, pour the eggs into it and gradually add the milk, mixing all together to give a fairly soft consistency.
• Grease two cake tins, divide the mixture equally between them and bake in a moderately hot oven for about one and a half hours.

Ann Davies kept a shop in Kidwelly at the beginning of this century. She baked bread and cakes in a large oven behind the shop and her fruit cake (recipe as above) was in great demand, at sixpence per round.

Miss Davies died in the Spring of 1928.

Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire.