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lucky

Serves/Makes:8

Ingredients

• 1-1/2 cups (350 ml) flour
• 2 tsp (10 ml). baking powder
• 1/4 tsp (1 ml). salt
• 1/4 cup (60 ml) sugar
• 1/2 cup (125 ml) butter
• 1/2 cup (125 ml) black currants,
• raisins or chopped dates
• 1 beaten egg
• Milk

Preparation

• Sift dry ingredients together.
• Cut in butter until it forms fine crumbs.
• Add fruit and mix well.
• Add beaten egg (saving 1 tbsp (15 ml) to brush tops) and enough milk to form a soft dough.
• Do not knead.
• Form into two equal balls on cookie sheet and pat each into a 6 inch circle.
• Score into 8 triangles each by pressing a large knife across the circle like spokes of a wheel.
• Brush tops with remaining egg.
• Do not separate.
• Bake at 400 degrees (200 C.) for 15 minutes or until lightly brown.

Comments

Delicious served with butter or jam.

My mother's recipe and she baked this in a shallow cast iron skillet.