Florence White

Yorkshire Spiced Loaf

A very old receipt

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Medium

    • Ready in

      2 hr

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By Florence White

Published 1932

  • About

This comes by way of Ross-on-Wye.

Ingredients

  • Flour 1 lb.
  • butter 4 oz.
  • currants

Method

  1. Rub butter into flour.
  2. Add sugar, currants and raisins stoned and well-chopped, also candied lemon and orange peel.
  3. Mix well.
  4. Warm treacle and milk separately.
  5. Dissolve the yeast in half the warm milk.
  6. Beat up the rest of the milk with the egg.
  7. Now stir the warm treacle into the dry ingredients,