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Huntsman’s Cake
- Makes
1
cake - Difficulty
Easy
Published 1980
This is one of the best of all fruit cakes. It used to be made in the Cotswolds for the traditional after-hunting tea at which boiled eggs, bread and butter, and hot scones, crumpets or muffins were also served.
Ingredients
1 stick 120 g ½ cup 120 g
Method
Cream the butter and sugar. Add the egg yolks one at a time, beating well in. Add the flour, ground almonds, salt, currants, peel, cherries and almonds gradually, then pour in half the sherry. Fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites, and finally the sodium bicarbonate dissolved in the vinegar. Put the cake mixture into a greased and papered tin and cover with
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