Rock Buns

• 4 oz. margarine
• 8 oz. flour
• 2-1/5 (2.5) tsp. baking powder
• a pinch of salt
• 1/2 tsp. mixed spice
• a few drops of lemon juice
• 4 oz. sugar
• 4 oz. raisins
• 1 egg, beaten
• milk, to mix

Rub the fat into the flour, salt and spices until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Stir in sugar and raisins. Make a well in the centre, pour in the egg, lemon juice, and a little milk and stir in the dry ingredients, adding more milk, if necessary, to give a stiff dough. Spoon the mixture into small piles on the trays and bake for a quarter of an hour to 20 minutes.

If you leave out the baking powder you get ... biscuits!

seymore: I know, but maybe the Army cadets and ju-jitsu will help! (See October 6, 2000).