Boiled Fruit Cake
- Ready In:
- 2hrs 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Yields:
-
1 cake
ingredients
- 375 g mixed dried fruit
- 3⁄4 cup soft brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon mixed spice
- 1⁄2 cup water
- 125 g butter
- 1⁄2 cup sherry wine
- 2 eggs, lighly beaten
- 2 tablespoons marmalade
- 1 cup self raising flour
- 1 cup plain flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- prepared topping (optional)
- 1⁄3 cup toasted muesli
- 3 chopped walnuts and cherries
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.