Cakes, Biscuits and Bread

Like suet puddings, huge great teas at tables spread with homemade cakes and scones and biscuits seem to be vanishing (much to the consternation of the people who make and sell flour). Children’s teas now seem to be a form of supper, and after a ham salad or a hamburger it is hard to be enthusiastic about a many-layered chocolate gateau. It is at weekends, especially if you come from the North, and are not on an almost perpetual diet, that all the delicious buns and tea-breads can be tried, and it makes a very cosy sight. You feel like a genuine mother or wife if there are home-made things for tea, and they are cheaper than bought ones, and contain only ingredients you have chosen yourself.