Here's a recipe to make any dietitian (or reasonably sensible person) shudder.
12 oz self raising flour teasp salt 6 oz suet 3 oz lard
Mix like pastry, but with milk not water. Cook in hot oven.
This was my granny's recipe for suet cakes. Perhaps not surprisingly I have never made them!
The result looks like a surprisingly light and fluffy scone. We had them from time to time when I was a child. They are eaten warm, split in half and buttered!
One of my cousins remembers that when her future husband went to her house for the first time, her mother offered him suet cake - and he was nearly sick!
Ruth
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