Boiled Fruit Cake

"Mum's never fail fruit cake. It has always tasted great. Mum doesn't use the sherry or the marmalade. Mums alteration is a can of crushed pineapple and 1 teaspoon of bicarb soda."
 
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Ready In:
2hrs 20mins
Ingredients:
14
Yields:
1 cake
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ingredients

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directions

  • Place the mixed fruit, sugar, spice, water and butter in a large saucepan and bring to the boil. Simmer gently for 3 minutes, then remove and allow to cool. Add the sherry, eggs and marmalade. Fold in the sifted ingredients mixing well. Place mixture in a greased and lined 20cm round cake pan. For a crunchy topped cake, sprinkle over the muesli and docorate with a few walnuts and cherries before baking, Bake in a moderatley slow oven for 2 1/4 hours or until cooked when tested. (N.B. cover loosely with a sheet of foil or brown paper if top of cake os overbrowinging during cooking).

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Hi my name is Tracey and I live in a town just north of Melbourne Australia called Sunbury, For those who now anything about Cricket its is the "birth place of the Ashes"! I am currently working parttime as a teacher and the rest of the time home with my daughter who will be 2 in October 2007.
 
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