Gluten Free Boiled Fruit Cake

This is a gluten free variation of a recipe from "My Daily Dinner Cookery Book", which cost my mother three shillings, or $AUD0.30 many years ago.

• Ready In: 1 hr 20 mins
• Serves: 20
• Yields: 1 large cake

Ingredients

• 125  g butter or 125  g margarine
• 1⁄2 kg  mixed dried fruit
• 1  teaspoon allspice
• 1  teaspoon cinnamon
• 1⁄2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 2  teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
• 1  cup sugar
• 1  cup cold water
• 1  apple, deseeded and chopped (or grated)
• 3  eggs
• 1  cup besan (chick pea flour)
• 1  cup glutinous-rice flour
• 2  teaspoons gluten free baking powder

Directions

1. 1. Place butter, spices, fruit, bicarbonate soda, apple, water and sugar in a saucepan and bring to the boil.
2. 2. Boil for two minutes.
3. 3. Cool a little.
4. 4. Sift dry ingredients.
5. 5. Mix in the rest of the ingredients.
6. 6. Bake at 175C for 50-60 minutes.