Instructions: Sift the flour, spices, salt and soda; and then stir in the fruit and nuts. Melt the butter with the treacle and sugar on a low heat. The mixture should remain coolish but the sugar dissolved. Add the milk and stir in the eggs. Pour the warm mixture into a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly to form a batter. Pour into a greased and lined 2 lb loaf tin.

Bake at 325 F / 160 C / gas mark 3 for 1 1/4 hours.

This is a fairly heavy recipe and may sink on cooling.
** Scottish Home Baking
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Griogair

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