Recipe for family meals :

It is many years since Hub-UK was first launched. It has been created from recipes contributed form all over the world, from professionals and amateurs alike. A great many of the recipes do not have any details as to who sent them in or from where they came. It would be a shame not to share them with you for this reason alone.

This Welsh recipe is one such recipe. If you know where it originated, or perhaps it is even yours, let me know and I will add the necessary credits and acknowledgements.

"The most indispensable ingredient of all good home cooking - love, for those you are cooking for" ~ Sophia Loren.

Ingredients

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

Method

• Cream the sugar and lard.

• Mix in the egg and add the remainder of the ingredients, having dissolved the bicarbonate in the milk.

• Bake in a greased tin for about 3/4 hour in the oven at Gas Mark 5 / 375°F.

• Cut in half, spread with butter and eat hot.

Serves 6