Glacé fruit cake

Name: Glacé fruit cake
Yield: Makes one 8 inch (20 cm) cake
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons sherry or milk; 8 oz (225 g) butter; ½ level teaspoon salt; 4 oz (100 g) self-raising flour; 6 oz (175 g) plain flour; 3 tablespoons sherry or milk; finely grated rind of 1 lemon; 4 eggs; 8 oz (225 g) castor sugar; 4 oz (100 g) Glacé cherries; 4 oz (100 g) chopped walnuts; 4 oz (100 g) sultanas; 4 oz (100 g) crystallized ginger; 4 oz (100 g) Glacé pineapple

Preparation info

Makes
one 8 inch

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Katie Stewart’s Cookbook

By Katie Stewart

Published 1983

About

Ingredients

4 oz (100 g) Glacé cherries
4 oz (100

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Rinse the sugary coating from the cherries, pineapple, ginger and citron peel in warm water and pat dry in absorbent paper. Cut cherries in quarters and chop the pineapple, ginger and citron peel. Put fruit into a mixing bowl and add the sultanas and chopped walnuts. Sift the flours and salt on to a plate. Add 2 hea