Original Recipe:

• 1/4 lb butter
• 2 breakfast cups flour
• 1 small cup milk
• 1 breakfast cup sugar
• 1 dessertspoon ginger
• 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoon spice
• 2 teaspoons Baking Soda
• 2 tablespoons golden syrup

Cream butter and sugar, add eggs well beaten. Dissolve soda in 1 T boiling water.

Note: presumably you add the dry ingredients and bake it at this point!