250 g Flour, self raising

100 g Butter

75 g Dark brown sugar

150 g Dried mixed fruit

1 tb Black treacle

1 Egg

1 ts Ground ginger

1 ts Mixd spice

1/2 ts Salt

1/2 ts Bicarbonate of soda

200 ml Milk

Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg and stir in the treacle. Sift the flour, ginger, spice and salt together and stir into the creamed mixture. Dissolve the bicarbonate of soda in the milk and stir into the cake mixture. Add the fruit and mix well. Turn into a 20cm (8 inch) round cake tin lined with greased greaseproof paper and bake in a moderate oven (170C, 325F, gas mark 3) for 1 hour or until cooked. From:Country Cooking - Recipes from Wales by Sian Llewellyn.