Shropshire Soul Cakes

• 3lb plain flour
• 8oz butter, softened
• 8oz</

Sift the flour and rub in the slightly softened butter. Work the yeast with a teaspoon of sugar until it is creamy. Mix the flour with the eggs, yeast and enough milk to make a light dough. Leave to rise in a warm place for thirty minutes. Work in the sugar and spice and form into flat buns. Leave in a warm place for fifteen minutes, and then bake at 425°F, 220°C, gas mark 7 for fifteen minutes