Bonnag (The Sunrise Way)

  • 12 oz Plain Flour
  • 4 oz Sugar
  • 4 oz Butter or Margarine
  • 1 teaspoonful Bi-Carb. Of Soda
  • About 4 oz Dried Fruit
  • Sour Milk to mix to fairly soft dough (about a good teacupful)

Method. Rub fat into flour, add the sugar, then the fruit, add some of the milk in which the Bi-Carbonate of Soda has been mixed. Then add the rest until required consistency is obtained. Put in greased Baking tin and sprinkle sugar on top. Bake in a moderate oven about 45 minutes.

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For all these recipes I am thankful to Suzanne Daugherty for extracting them from her collection.

Measures or equivalents

  • 1 tsp = 5g or 1/8 oz;
  • 1 tbsp = 15g or ½oz
  • 4oz = 100g = ½cup (flour)


Author of this Article:  Frances Coakley - A Manx Notebook