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BOILED FRUIT CAKE

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Serves: About 20 slices

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I have tried others but every time I revert to this - although I believe boiled fruit cakes are not quite the done thing.

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Ingredients

  • 22 oz mixed dried fruit (soak in half cup rum or brandy for a few days if you wish)
  • ½ cup rum (or brandy to soak dried fruit)
  • 9 fl oz water
  • 4 oz butter
  • 9 fl oz cane sugar
  • 18 fl oz flour
  • fl oz baking soda
  • 1 egg
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • fl oz mixed spice
  • 1 cup nuts (of choice)

Method

  1. Boil the fruit, sugar and spice in the water for 5 minutes. Cool and add 1/2 cup of brandy / rum. Stir in the flour, bicarb and beaten egg. Add the roughly chopped nuts. Mix well. Make a wish.
  2. Bake in a well-lined 20 cm tin (2 layers of lining) at 160C until browned and done (about 2 hours).
  3. When cooled, remove from the tin. Leave on the lining and drizzle some brandy/rum over the top. Do this a few more times before xmas.
  4. Cover the cake with tin foil and store in a cupboard till you wish to decorate it.

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  • I came across this recipe while searching for an easy boiled fruit cake recipe. I have had to improvise because the dried ingredient is in liquid measures and it doesn't say in the recipe when to put the butter in? however I have used the recipe twice and both times I have been complemented on the cake. By the way I put the butter in while the fruit etc is cooling.

    Posted by suethian on 6th Nov 2012 at 11.26