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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook great grandma's light fruit cake (not christmas) using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make great grandma's light fruit cake (not christmas):
- Prepare 6 oz golden granulated sugar
- Prepare 6 oz margarine
- Get 1/2 tsp mixed spice
- Get 1 pinch salt
- Get 8 oz self raising flour
- Take 3 eggs
- Prepare 1 a splash of milk
- Prepare 6 handfulls of currants and sultanas (3 each)
Add the eggs, one at a time, and beat well after each addition. Sift flour and bicarbonate of soda over the fruit mixture and mix well, ensuring all the fruit is coated in flour. Add the butter mixture and stir to combine well. Light, love contrast of nuts to the fruit; dense, but a bit dry; cake with fruit is lighter in texture, nuts and fruit visible with some holes in the cake; spicy and a little tart, nice with currants and spice; nuts are dry; not as dry as it looked; nice balance of fruit and nuts; no fruit colour; light, cakey, fruity, spice after taste, more.
Steps to make great grandma's light fruit cake (not christmas):
- cream the golden granulated sugar and margarine into a large bowl with a wooden spoon until it's fully mixed
- add the mixed spice and salt (salt not compulsory) and a bit of the flour and mix in well.
- break in three eggs
- mix well with the wooden spoon
- add the rest of the flour and mix in well
- add milk until required until a nice dropping consistency
- mix in currants and raisins to taste (approximately 3 handfulls of each)
- bake in a well greased cake tin (7-8 inches) in a preheated oven at 190°F C for about an hour
This delightful Christmas cake is traditionally rich, moist and full of flavour, it's probably as old as the hills! It came from my mother's old hand written recipe book written well before the last World War. Mum told me that she got it from her mother and even then it was called mums best Christmas cake - so we wonder just how many generations this goes back. Get the best fruit cakes, made with the rich goodness of ripe cherries, succulent pineapples, plump raisins, crunchy almonds, English walnuts & pecans at Beatrice Bakery. I love a great fruit cake recipe!
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