Categories: Cakes 
      Yield: 6 servings 
  
     10 oz Flour                               1 ts Treacle 
      4 oz Lard                                1 x  Pinch mixed spice and ginger 
      3 oz Sugar                               4 oz Dried fruit 
      1 x  Egg                                 1 c  Milk 
    1/2 ts Bicarbonate                         1 x  Pinch salt 
  
  Cream the sugar and fat.  Mix in the egg and add the remainder of the 
  ingredients, having desolved the bicarbonate in the milk. 
  Bake in a greased tin for about 3/4 hour in a moderately hot oven. 
  Gas control, Gas MArk 5 (375F). 
  Alternate: 
  3 teacupsful of flour; 1 teacupful of butter; 1 teacupful of sugar; 
  2 teaspoonful of baking powder; 2 eggs; milk to mix; a little dried fruit. 
  Rub the butter into the flour, add sugar, baking powder and well beaten 
  eggs and milk if necessary - it must be kept fairly stiff. 
  This mixture is enough to fill two sandwich tins.  Bake for 30-40 minutes. 
  Cut in half, spread with butter and eat hot.  Oven control, Gas Mark 5 
  (375F). 
  Croeso Cymreig.