Armenian Nutmeg Cake

Recipe courtesy of a Chinese whisper (from W who got it from someone in her mother's group).

1 cup self-raising flour
1 cup plain flour
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
125g butter
1 1/2 cups brown sugar, lightly packed
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
3/4 cup milk
1 egg
1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans

Grease pan, sift flours and nutmeg into bowl, rub in butter, mix in sugar. Press 1 1/2 cups of the mixture into pan. Stir combined soda and milk into remaining dry ingredients with egg and nuts, mix well, pour into pan. Bake 190C for 35mins. A good cake for freezing, picnics and lunchboxes.