An Interesting Fruit Cake

Name: An Interesting Fruit Cake
Total time: 2 h
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: eggs 6; brandy 1 wineglassful.; nutmeg ½ grated; plums ½ lb. (stoned and each cut into four); sultanas ½ lb.; currants ½ lb.; bitter and sweet almonds mixed and finely chopped 1 oz.; bitter and sweet almonds mixed and finely chopped 1 oz.; salt ¼ teaspoonful; cream of tartar 1 teaspoonful, bicarbonate of soda ½ teaspoonful; cream of tartar 1 teaspoonful, bicarbonate of soda ½ teaspoonful; plain flour 1 lb.; castor sugar 6 oz.; Butter 10 oz.

Miss Rawlins, Burford, 1906

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
2 hr

Appears in

Good Things in England

By Florence White

Published 1932

About

Ingredients

Butter 10 oz.
castor sugar 6 oz.
plain flour

Europe
United Kingdom
Dessert
Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Cream the butter.
Then add sugar and cream again.
Sift the flour, cream of tartar, carbonate of soda, salt and nutmeg together.
Mix them into the creamed butter and sugar.
Prepare the fruit and mix that in.
Whisk the eggs well.
Add the brandy.
And with them mix the cake.
Put