Nan's Boiled Fruit Cake
This fruitcake recipe yields a moist and delicious treat that is perfect for any special occasion. With a rich blend of mixed fruit, warm spices, and crunchy walnuts, this cake is sure to be a hit with your family and friends. Enjoy the process of creating this cake from a bubbling pot of fruit mixture to a beautifully baked and decorated masterpiece.
— Constant Cookbook
Ingredients
- 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
Instructions
- Place all the ingredients for the fruit mix in a large saucepan bring to the boil and allow to cool for about 30 minutes
- Preheat oven to 160C / Gas 3
- Add the cherries and nuts stir through
- then add eggs and mix well, add the flour and fold through the mix.
- 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.
Yield
Serves 8
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