Lyn's Recipe Collection
Good, easy to mix and economical
5.5 cups flour
1 cup each melted butter, cream, treacle & muscovado sugar
2 eggs
1/2 oz ginger (powder?)
250g raisins
1 tsp bicarb
1 Tab vinegar
Put flour in basin, add: sugar, ginger & raisins and mix.
Stir in butter, cream, treacle & eggs: add bicarb dissolved in vinegar.
Bake in mod oven for 2 1/2 hours.
The cooked apples taste like citron – delicious and not expensive.
Soak 3 cupfuls of dried apples overnight in cold water enough to swell them.
Chop them in the morning and stew with 3 cups molasses until soft; add 2 handfuls of seedless raisins (opt) and stew a few moments.
When cold, add 3 cupfuls of flour*, spice if preferred, 1 cupful of butter or marg, 3 eggs and 1 tsp bicarb. Mix well.
Bake in mod oven to make 2 good-sized cakes.
* SR needed for this quantity?