Fruit Cake by Mrs Sylvia Prior (From Bridport and Lyme Regis News)
Contact the Bridport News with your stories, pictures and video footage. Send us an email
Fruit Cake by Mrs Sylvia Prior
11:10am Monday 26th March 2007 in Leisure
Recipe Name:
Fruit Cake
Recipe Description:
This is a moist rich fruit cake.
Ingredients:
1 cup sultanas
1 cup raisins
1 cup currants
1 cup sugar
1 cup peel
1 cup boiling water
1½ teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
6oz butter
Method:
Boil all this for ½ hour.
When cold add: 2 eggs, ¼ cup milk, ½ wine glass brandy or sherry, 2 cups s/r flour, 1½ teaspoons baking powder.
Cook in lined cake tin 7"/10" for 1½ hours at 250°F or 150°C.
Allowed to cool, it can be frozen.
