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Boil-in-the-Pan Fruit Cake

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    1

    cake
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
English Provincial Cooking

By Elisabeth Ayrton

Published 1980

  • About

This way of making a cake was more usual in the nineteenth century than it is today. It has the advantage of making a rather plain mixture seem richer and lighter in texture than if the same ingredients are mixed by creaming or rubbing the fat into the flour.

Ingredients

  • cup (120 g) sultanas
  • cup (120 g</

Method

Line a 7 inch (18 cm) cake tin with buttered greaseproof paper.

Put the dried fruit, butter, sugar and milk into a saucepan and bring to the boil. Stir gently and simmer for 20 minutes. Remove from

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