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 Small square cakes of soda-raised white wheatflour with currants sugar and lard. Similar to the, larger, Hampshire Lard Cake  Lardy Johns Image: Alex Bray...  Original Receipt from 'Sussex Agricultural Express' - Friday 27 December 1929 TWO SUSSEX DISHES. Recipes for five dishes peculiar Sussex are given a novel collection, "County Recipes of Old England" (Country Life. Ltd., 3s. 6d.). which has just been published Two of those chosen dishes are the following: LARDY JOHNS. 1/2 lb. of flour. 1oz. of sugar. 1/4 lb. of lard. 1/2 oz. of currants. 1 1/2 teaspoonfnls of baking powder, 1/4 pint water Rub the lard into flour, then add the baking powder mixed with the sugar; last of all put in the currants after have been thoroughly picked over and cleaned. Mix into a stiff paste with the water; roll out. cut into 2 ins. squares, and bake for about ten to fifteen minutes.  |
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