Boiled Fruit Cake
Ingredients:
750g mixed fruit
250g dates
125g glace cherries
125g unsalted butter
¾ cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon mixed spice
½ cup water
½ cup sweet sherry
2 eggs
2 tablespoons marmalade
1 cup Self Raising flour
1 cup plain flour
¼ teaspoon salt
Method:
Chop mixed fruit and dates, halve cherries.
Combine in a saucepan with butter, sugar, spice and water.
Stir over heat until butter is melted, bring to boil.
Boil uncovered 3 minutes.
Remove from heat.
When completely cold, add sherry, beaten eggs and marmalade.
Mix well.
Add sifted flours and salt and mix well.
Line a deep 20cm square tin or a deep 23cm round cake tin with 2 thicknesses of greaseproof paper, bring paper 5cm above edge of tin.
Bake in moderately slow oven for 2 hours or until cooked when tested. Remove from oven cover with aluminium foil until cold.
When cold remove from tin, rewrap in foil until required.
