Spotted Dog

In some parts of the country, spotted dog is called railway cake – ‘a currant for every station’, as the saying goes. In my case, though, it would be ‘a sultana for every station’. I prefer them for their more luscious flavour.

This bread has always been a favourite with our children, freshly made on Sunday mornings for our picnics on the cliffs at Ballyandreen or relished with lashings of butter, jam and steaming mugs of drinking chocolate after a winter walk on Shanagarry strand.<