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Overnight Cake

Caernarfon, Gwynedd

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The Recipe

You will need

  • half a pound plain flour
  • four ounces butter or lard
  • three or four ounces mixed dried fruit
  • one teaspoonful cinnamon
  • one teaspoonful ginger
  • half a teaspoonful bicarbonate of soda
  • one tablespoonful vinegar
  • milk

Method

  1. Rub the fat into the flour and work in the other dry ingredients. 
  2. Mix gradually with milk to give a fairly soft consistency. 
  3. Dissolve the soda in the vinegar, pour it over the soft batter mixture and stir briskly. 
  4. Allow this mixture to stand overnight.
  5. Line a cake tine with greaseproof paper, pour the mixture into it and bake in a moderately hot oven for about one and a quarter hours.

Caernarvon.

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