Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

1 1/2 lb Plain flour 8 oz Golden syrup
3 ts Baking powder 8 oz Sugar
6 oz Lard Salt
6 oz Margarine Milk as necessary

Mix together the flour, salt and baking powder. Rub in the fats, add the
sugar and syrup. Mix to a stiff dough with milk. Shape into two pieces 1«"
thick . PLce on a greased baking tin and bake in a moderate oven for about
25 mins, until firm and light brown. Cut and serve thickly buttered.

Remarks: This recipe can be found in many very old books, and may have come
form the Old Norse language, where a heap of corn was known as Mugi. The
word can be traced back through early English, where corn was refered to as
Muge and later Muga. In it's ealiest form, it was probably made with yeast
and honey instead of baking powder and syrup/sugar.

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