Monday, August 15, 2005

Boiled Fruit Cake

Ingredients for boiling

340g/12oz butter or spread 
2 cups milk
2 cups soft brown sugar

250g sultanas
4 tsp mixed spice


Instructions
Boil all ingredients for 5 minutes then leave to cool. I always use butter for taste.


Other Ingredients
4 beaten eggs
4 cups plain flour with 2 heaped teaspoons baking powder
or
4 cups self-raising flour


Instructions
Gently stir eggs into boiled mixture then add flour (and baking powder if used) and mix. Alternatively mix in half the flour, mix, then half the eggs, mix, then repeat with the remainder.

Place in a greased large square tin and bake for approximately 1 hour 10 minutes at 160ºC, until skewer comes out clean.

Cool for 5 or 10 minutes before removing from tin.

If this cake is too big for you, half the ingredients and it fits nicely into a small cake tin. As before bake at 160ºC for around 1 hour 10 minutes.

Will keep fairly well and can be frozen.



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