Teisen Sir Fon (Anglesey Cake) Welsh - cooking recipe
Ingredients
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10 ounces flour
1 teaspoon treacle
4 ounces lard
1 pinch mixed spice
1 pinch ginger
3 ounces sugar
4 ounces dried fruit
1 egg
1 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 pinch salt
Preparation
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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.
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