Farmhouse Fruit Cake

Farmhouse Fruit Cake

Ingredients

  • 115g (4 oz) wholemeal flour
  • 115g (4 oz) plain white flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp nutmeg, grated
  • 75g (3 oz) butter
  • 75g (3 oz) soft brown sugar
  • 175g (6 oz) sultanas
  • 50g (2 oz) mixed peel
  • 50g (2 oz) glace cherries, quartered
  • ½ lemon
  • 2 free range eggs, beaten
  • 150ml (¼ pint) milk

Method

  1. Mix together the flours, baking powder and nutmeg. Rub in the butter until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs, or use a food processor to do this.
  2. Stir in the sugar, sultanas, peel, cherries and the rind and juice of the half a lemon. Make a well in the mixture and add the eggs and milk, mix together. Spoon the cake mixture into a greased and lined 18cm (7 inch) round cake tin.
  3. Bake for about 1¼ hours just below the centre of the baking oven, until the cake is browned and firm to the touch. Allow to cool for 15 minutes then turn out onto a cake rack to cool completely.

Conventional cooking: bake at 180ºC, fan oven 160ºC, Gas Mark 4 for about 1¼ hours, until browned and firm to the touch.

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