European Recipes:Welsh Recipes:Teisen Sir Fon (Anglesey Cake)

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       Title: Teisen Sir Fon (Anglesey Cake) Welsh
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.