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Description
Ingredients
- half a pound plain flour
- two and a half ounces butter
- four ounces mixed fruit
- one tablespoonful black treacle
- two tablespoonfuls sugar
- a little mixed spice
- milk or buttermilk
Method
- Rub the butter into the flour, work in the other dry ingredients and gradually add the milk (or buttermilk) together with the treacle to give a fairly stiff mixture.
- Put the mixture on a greased enamel (or oven-proof) plate and bake in a moderately hot oven for approximately one hour.
Another name given to this particular cake on Bardsey Island was tamad (lit. piece), and it was eaten quite regularly for afternoon tea there.
Bardsey Island.
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