SC - Recipes for "Teisen Lap"

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Here are three recipes for the Welsh cake "Teisen Lap"  (not sure of English).  
This is a traditional Welsh cake.  

The three recipes are for the same cake, and although all are "rubbing in" 
method dishes with similar ingredient lists, each version seems to vary somewhat 
in the cooking method. 

I wonder - are there other dishes that can be cooked by different methods and 
yet be called the same thing like this?

Elysant


Teisen Lap (1)

1 oz flour
4 oz lard
4 oz margarine
2 heaped teaspoons baking powder
7 oz sugar
8 oz currants
3 eggs
a little nutmeg

Rub the fat into the flour and add the dry ingredients.  Add the well-beaten 
eggs and enough milk to have a soft mixture.  Bake in a moderate oven, using a 
shallow tin (my mother cooks it on a greased ovenproof plate).  The cake is cut 
into wedges when cool.

Teisen Lap (2)
1 lb flour
4 oz fat
4 oz brown sugar
4 oz mixed fruit
1/2 teaspoon of spice
1/2 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda dissolved in milk)
1 egg
1/2 pint of buttermilk or sour milk

Rub fat into flour, add sugar, fruit, spice; mix well together,  Add the beaten 
egg and the milk and beat to a soft dough.  Divide the dough and roll out to an 
inch in thickness; bake on a bakestone or hotplate; time about 15 minutes, when 
nicely brown one side, turn it over.


Teisen Lap (3)

This cake should be baked in  Dutch oven before an open fire to make it in the 
traditional Welsh way but the results are just as good if you bake it in a well 
greased oblong tine (spread the mixture thinly) in a moderate oven for about 35 
- - 40 minutes.

1 lb flour
1 teaspoonful baking powder
Pinch of salt
a little grated nutmeg
4 oz butter
4 oz sugar
4 oz dried fruit (sultanas and currants)
3 eggs
1/2 pint milk (sour milk is delicious)

Sieve flour, baking-powder, salt and nutmeg.  Rub in lightly butter, add sugar 
and fruit, whisk the eggs, and add to mixture.  Gradually add the milk, mixing 
all with a wooden spoon.  The consistency should be soft enough for the batter 
to drop from the spoon.
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