Michele Day's Fruitcake

A community recipe by Anonymous

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Introduction

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Ingredients

Serves: 6

2 cups golden raisins
2 cups raisins
1 cup currants
12 ounces butter
2 cups brown sugar
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 cups water
2 teaspoons nutmeg
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 dash ground cloves
4 well beaten eggs
2 cups plain whole wheat flour

Method

Michele Day's Fruitcake is a community recipe submitted by Anonymous and has not been tested by Nigella.com so we are not able to answer questions regarding this recipe.

Put the 3 fruits, butter, sugar, carb soda and water in a large pan bring to boil and boil about 5 minutes stirring to dissolve sugar. watch to see it does not froth over the top of the pan. Set aside to cool.

Add the spices and eggs folding gently. Then fold in the flour bit by bit until well blended. It is quite a fluid mix. Perhaps this is the secret of the lightness.

Grease and paper the tin with baking paper.

Cook about 90 minutes at 170C, or until a skewer tests clean. Enjoy.

Sometime I use two smaller tins, which means shorter cooking time.