York Mayne bread

This is a treasure I found in my mother’s Yorkshire Women’s Institute Recipe Book, dating from about 1955. York Mayne Bread was recorded as early as 1445, when it was the custom to present it to important visitors to the city, a practice that continued until the latter half of the seventeenth century, after which the recipe seemed to be lost and the bread fell out of fashion as spiced bread became more popular. But intensive research in 1950 unearthed the recipe, and samples of it were made