Paste: Two cups flour, salt, 2 level teaspoons cream of tartar, 1 level teaspoon soda, 2 ozs. butter, 2 tablespoons sugar, 1 egg. Sift flour with rising. Rub in butter, add sugar, and mix into a stiff paste with well-beaten egg. Roll out about quarter of an inch, cut into 3-inch squares.
Mixture: Chop up 1 cup seeded raisins, 1 tablespoon mixed peel, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1/4 cup sultanas, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon. Mix all together, and put on dessertspoonful in each square of paste. Fold over and pinch the edges together. Brush over with milk and dust a little sugar on each, and bake in a moderate oven till a golden brown.
Source: Memory Lane Cookbook (Rotary Club of Naracoorte; 1986), p.106.
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