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  • BOILED FRUIT MIXTURE
  • 4 oz Brown Sugar
  • 8 oz margarine or butter
  • 1lb mixed fruit
  • 2 tsp mixed spice
  • 1/2 Pint Milk

FOR THE CAKE MIXTURE

  • 4 oz Glace Cherries
  • 2 eggs beaten
  • 2 oz chopped walnuts
  • 12 oz Self Raising Flour
  • 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
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    Method

    • step 1

      Place all the ingredients for the fruit mix in a large saucepan bring to the boil and allow to cool for about 30 minutes
    • step 2

      Preheat oven to 160C / Gas 3
    • step 3

      Add the cherries and nuts stir through
    • step 4

      then add eggs and mix well, add the flour and fold through the mix.
    • step 5

      Place the mixture in a greased and floured 8' - deep cake tin. Tie some greaseproof paper around the outside of the tin so that the paper comes over the edges of the tin or optionally place over the top about half way through baking. Bake for 2 hours but check after 1.5 hours , check to see if cooked throughly with a skewer. If not bake a little further until the skewer comes out clean from the cake. Allow to cool and either decorate with marzipan and royal icing, or dried apricots and cherries and glaze with melted apricot jam or plain is very nice too.
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    A star rating of 4.5 out of 5.59 ratings

    Mossmelly

    I love this recipe, I have made it plenty of times now. I have made it with brandy and without and both ways are just as nice. The cake has been frozen and defrosted and still tasted just as nice and didn’t dry out.

    tagdes

    Love this cake ,instead of milk I use half pint of Guinness it is amazing ,worth trying

    colinmasswkZIizCl

    I think the cooking timing is totally of on this recipe , I split mine into two two pound loaf tins and it's a good job I was continuously checking because they were cooked in 45 minutes and they look dry so I've poured honey over them hoping it will soak in and moisten them.. if your going to make…

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