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12-04-2012, 02:02 PM | #1 | ||
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Anybody have a good recipe for a simple good fruitcake? Thanks much!
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02-01-2013, 03:30 PM | #2 | |||
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Sorry Kitt...
Haven't been around much lately and just reading your unanswered msg here from early December. I could have left you a number of nice recipes. If you still want any just let me know. |
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02-01-2013, 08:14 PM | #3 | ||
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Sure, I'd like them. Thank you.
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02-02-2013, 02:32 PM | #4 | |||
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Great.
I'll post back later today. Just waking up in Australia. I need to go through my books. |
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"Thanks for this!" says: | Kitt (02-02-2013) |
02-02-2013, 09:14 PM | #5 | |||
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I've been typing away merrily after looking for some of my recipes and then I realized that I would probably need to convert all the ingredients and temperatures etc.. I'm not sure exactly how one would measure 6.5257oz. Sure wish the US would go Metric. LOL
Another thing is that some of the words I use might need translating. Just ask if you don't know what I mean by some words. I was thinking about you asking for "simple". That can be tricky with fruit cakes. I figure what I really find the easiest are the boiled fruit cakes. So I'll post a few of my favourites. I used to make really great ones, as are used in wedding cakes and xmas cakes but I've found that they're just way too expensive these days so tend to do much lighter ones. Lots of fruit cakes use alcohol in their recipes. I tend to just use orange juice. Depends. If it's for something really special I'll buy a miniature bottle like I do for the rum balls I make for xmas. These first three ones I'm posting today are from my Australian Women's Weekly collection of cook books. I have a brilliant boiled fruit cake recipe somewhere from the Country Women's Assocation but I'll have to hunt that down. It's about 35 years old, unlike myself. lol Boiled Date Cake 185g butter (6.5257oz) 1 cup milk ½ cup brown sugar 1 cup finely chopped dates (No seeds!) ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda 2 eggs 2 ¼ cups self-raising flour Combine butter, milk, sugar and chopped dates in a saucepan and stir over heat until butter is melted. Bring to the boil. Remove from heat, stir in soda. Stand 5 minutes. Stir in lightly beaten eggs and sifted flour in 2 lots. Mix well Pour mix into well-greased 20cm (8 inches close enough ) ring tin. Bake in moderate oven 40 minutes. (Moderate oven here is 190-200C (375-400F) Turn onto wire rack to cool. Serve buttered. more to come once I figure this conversion business out. Actually laughing out loud here. Last edited by Lara; 02-02-2013 at 10:06 PM. |
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02-02-2013, 09:17 PM | #6 | |||
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Sultana Orange Cake
750g sultanas (10 1/2 oz ) 1 ¾ cups boiling water ½ cup orange juice 3 eggs 1 tablespoon grated orange rind 1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed ½ cup oil 1 ¾ cups wholemeal self-raising flour 1 cup soy flour Grease a deep 19cm (7 1/2 inch) square cake pan. Line with paper. Grease the paper Combine sultanas, water and orange juice in a bowl. Stand for 1 hour Beat eggs, rind and sugar in a separate bowl with electric mixer until thick and creamy. Gradually add the oil. Transfer mix to large bowl and fold in the sifted flours and the sultana mixture Spread into prepared pan Bake in moderately slow oven for about 1 ¾ hours (Moderately Slow here for electric is 160-180C (325-350F) Gas 160C ((325F) Stand 10 mins before turning onto wire rack to cool. Last edited by Lara; 02-02-2013 at 10:01 PM. |
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