Florence White

Yorkshire Currant Bread

This recipe was kindly sent by a B.B.C. listener, E. S.

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Medium

    • Ready in

      1 hr

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By Florence White

Published 1932

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Ingredients

  • Flour, 1¾ lb.
  • lard 6 oz.
  • butter (or margarine

Method

  1. Rub the butter and lard into the flour.
  2. Mix in the soda, cream of tartar and salt.
  3. Add the currants washed and picked.
  4. The raisins stoned and chopped.
  5. The sugar.
  6. And the peel chopped.
  7. Mix well together.
  8. Then blend with the treacle melted.
  9. And the eggs well beaten with