Name: Fruited Supper Cake
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 30 g cold butter, chopped; 165 g (¾ cup) white sugar; 125 ml (½ cup) warm milk; 2 tablespoons brown sugar; 115 g dried mixed fruit, chopped, or 115 g sultanas; pinch of salt; 2 rounded tablespoons plain flour; 2 small teaspoons ground cinnamon; 2 eggs; 300 g (2 cups) self-raising flour; 115 g butter, softened

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Australian Blue Ribbon Cookbook

By Liz Harfull

Published 2014

About

Slap-up lunches prepared by the women of the district and served for ridiculously low prices are a country show tradition, but in times gone by the facilities available to feed hundreds of people were a far cry from today’s commercial kitchens.

Enid Cox remembers the days just after World War II when a team of women sweated over open fires to boil beetroot and plum puddings for the Maleny Agricultural Show in south-eastern Queensland. ‘We would be crying our eyes ou