Granny’s Fruit Cake
From elgourmand 8 years ago
- 2 hrs to make
- Serves some
I’m sure you’ve noticed that Christmas is just around the corner. The holidays always make me think of food like turkey, ham, sweet potatoes, fruit cake, etc. A fair young lass once told me that there were only 500 fruit cakes in the world and they kept going around from one poor sod to another. Read more Maybe, but, when they get to me, I eat em. This is a very nice, self respecting, fruit cake. Yo, ho, ho. See less
Ingredients
- • 450g/1lb self-rising flour shopping list
- • 125g/4oz caster sugar shopping list
- • 1 tsp baking powder shopping list
- • 1 tsp mixed spice shopping list
- • pinch salt shopping list
- • 125g/4oz unsalted butter shopping list
- • 450g/1lb mixed fruit and peel shopping list
- • 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda shopping list
- • 250ml/9fl oz milk shopping list
- • ½ cup good quality rum shopping list
How to make it
- 1. Preheat the oven to gas 150C/300F/Gas 2. Grease and line a 1.4kg/3lb loaf tin.
- 2. In a bowl sift together the flour, sugar, baking powder, mixed spice and salt.
- 3. Rub in the butter and then fold in the mixed fruit. See Photo
- 4. Stir the bicarbonate of soda into the milk, add the rum then add to the mix and stir until well combined. See Photo
- 5. Spoon the mixture into the loaf tin and place in the oven for 1hr 45 minutes. Keep an eye on the cake and cover it with a sheet of foil if it’s getting too dark.
- 6. Allow to cool a little and then turn out. Serve in slices with plenty of butter.
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