Won fourth prize in the Sunday Times Recipe Contest (reference)
Ingredients:
1 lb (450 g) flour
3 teaspoonfuls of baking powder
½ pint (300ml) milk
½ teaspoonful of salt
¼ lb (113 g) butter
¼ lb (113 g) moist brown sugar
¼ lb (113 g) fruit - currants, sultanas or raisins
1 egg
Method:
Put flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in bowl and mix well
Melt the butter in the milk and pour over flour mixture. Mix well then add fruit.
Divide the dough into small pieces, shape into buns and place on greased tin
Glaze with beaten egg applied with a feather
Bake in a hot oven on a greased tin
Submitted by Mrs A. Townsend, Sewell-street, East Fremantle