Darina Allen: Sweet baking recipes I discovered in a secondhand cookbook

"During a recent trawl through random books in a West Cork shop, I came across what for me is a little gem. A cookbook entitled Talking About Cakes with an Irish and Scottish Accent by Margaret Bates."

Cake with strawberries. Dark background.

I just love rummaging around in vintage and charity shops. You never know what you’ll come across. 

I often find nothing at all but occasionally unearth a treasure of no particular interest to anyone else.