Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, boiled fruit cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Boiled fruit cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Boiled fruit cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
Boiled Fruit Cake. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. Place soaked fruit, water, butter, golden syrup and sugar in a saucepan. This Easy (Boiled) Fruit Cake is a much simpler version of the traditional British fruit cake.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have boiled fruit cake using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Boiled fruit cake:
- Get 1 cup water
- Make ready 1 cup caster sugar
- Prepare 1 lb dried fruit
- Take 6 oz margarine
- Take 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- Prepare 2 eggs
- Make ready 2 cup self raising flour
You don't boil the cake, just the ingredients before you bake it. This is a Northern Ireland recipe given to me by my mum many years ago! You don't boil the cake, just the ingredients before you. A quickly mixed, everyday fruit cake.
Steps to make Boiled fruit cake:
- In a large saucepan, mix all of the ingredients apart from the flour, eggs and bicarbonate of soda.
- Simmer for 15 minutes.
- Allow the mix to cool completely.
- Whilst cooling, line a large cake tin with greased baking paper and preheat the oven to 302° F/ 150°C.
- Beat in the eggs.
- Sift in the flour and bicarbonate of soda and then fold everything together.
- Pour into the tin and bake for 1 1/2 hours on the middle shelf of the oven.
- Leave to cool in the tin.
You can vary the dried fruit to include your favourites. Cover and bring to the boil then remove from the heat. Stir in the butter and sugar, stirring constantly until. By this simmering/boiling process, fruits will plump up similar to the soaked fruits. hence the name is 'Boiled fruit' cake. The texture of this eggless boiled fruit cake is soft and moist.
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