Ingredients

one pound plain flour
six ounces lard
half a teaspoonful salt
one cupful sugar
one cupful currants
half a teaspoonful bicarbonate of soda
half a pint sour buttermilk

Method

Rub the lard into the flour and add all the other dry ingredients.
Dissolve the bicarbonate of soda in the sour buttermilk and work into the dry ingredients to make a soft dough.
Turn out on to a floured board, roll out until it is about a quarter of an inch thick and cut into small rounds.
Bake both sides on a very lightly greased bakestone over a moderate heat.

Pennant, Montgomeryshire.