Rock Cake - British Recipes

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

I just Asked Jeeves 'what is rock cake?' (I use a lot of different 
search engines) and was directed to this mouth-watering site:

http://soar.berkeley.edu/recipes/ethnic/british/index1.html

(it's part of the table of contents of a cook book, this page 
begins with Lemon Curd, Lemon Sauce Pudding, Love in Disguise, Making 
Your Own Devonshire or Clotted Cream, and runs through ... Poor 
Knights ... Rock Cake ... Spotted Dick, Spotted Dog ... to Toad in 
the Hole and Yorkshire Pudding.

The Rock Cakes are at 
http://soar.Berkeley.EDU/recipes/ethnic/british/recipe26.rec and the 
note says: "A staple at English boarding schools, these individual 
cakes are served with afternoon tea.  They don't keep well; after a 
day they take on the characteristics of "rocks"