Anglesey Cake

Ingredients for Anglesey Cake 

10 oz flour
4 oz lard
3 oz sugar
1 x egg
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp treacle
1 x pinch mixed spice and ginger
4 oz dried fruit
1 cup milk
1 x pinch salt

How to make Anglesey Cake

• Preheat the oven to 190°C / Gas Mark 5.
  
  
• Cream together the sugar and the lard.
  
  
• Mix in the egg.
  
  
• Dissolve the bicarbonate of soda in the milk.
  
  
• Mix in the flour, treacle, mixed spice and ginger and the dried fruit.
  
  
• Add the bicarbonate dissolved in milk and mix together.
  
  
• Put the mixture into a greased tin and bake in oven for about three-quarters of an hour.
  
  
• Cut in half, spread with butter and eat hot.

Serves 6