Baking...

Oral histories day tomorrow! So tonight, in preparation, I made brown cakes...


and also these... 8oz flour


4 oz butter...rubbed in...


3oz sugar...



dried fruit (usually I use currants)


1 egg,


maybe some milk.


rolling out


cutting...

fat rubbed into stone...


waiting and turning over (a tense moment)...

...all this for these....


Welsh Cakes! (Although I have to ask myself was it really worth it...maybe I shall find out tomorrow)