Aberdeen Crulla¹

• flour
• butter
• sugar
• eggs
• lard or suet

Beat to a cream a quarter-pound of fresh butter and mix with it the same quantity of pounded and sifted loaf sugar and four well-beaten eggs; add flour till thick enough to roll out; cut the paste into oblong pieces about four to five inches in length; with a paste cutter divide the centre into three or four strips; wet the edges and plait one bar over the other so as to meet in the centre; thr