Dripping Cake

Name: Dripping Cake
Ingredients: 8oz mixed dried fruit and candied peel; 5oz brown sugar; 3oz clarified beef dripping; pinch of nutmeg; pinch of cinnamon; pinch of mixed spice; ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda; ⅜ pint water; 8oz wholemeal flour; 8oz wholemeal flour; 1 teaspoon baking powder

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Farmhouse Kitchen

By Mary Norwak

Published 1991

About

Ingredients

8oz mixed dried fruit and candied peel
3oz clarified beef dripping
5

Dessert
Spicy
Cake

Method

Put the fruit in a heavy pan with dripping, sugar and water, bring to the boil and simmer for ten minutes. Leave to cool, then pour into the rest of the ingredients which have been sifted together. Blend well but do not beat. Put into a greased six-inch cake tin and bake at 350°F, 180°C, gas mark 4 for 1¼-1½ hours.