This is something we like to eat with our breaka. We eat it with butter on one side or thin slices on our sandwich. It tasts sweet and contains hardly any fat. It’s not expensive to buy and isn’t a lot of work if you prefer to make it yourself.

Ingredients:

2 cups self rising flour, ½ cup dark brown sugar (demerara sugar), 1/3 cup molasses or treacle, 1 cup milk, 1 tsp. each ground cloves, cinnamon and ginger, ½ tsp. grated nutmeg, pinch of salt.

Preparations:

Combine all the ingredients to a smooth paste. Butter a oblong 8″ x 3″ cake tin, fill with dough and bake about one hour in a slow oven (300° F.). When cooked, allow to cool and keep in a tin or in the bread-bin for 24 hour before serving. This cake keep moist when put in the bread-bin with the bread. The Dutch serve it with their “elevenses”, buttered or on a slice of bread for breakfast.