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- Cuisine: Scottish
- Serves 12
Featured as part of our Cooks and their Books series, this recipe comes from Cooking from Memory, a book which celebrates the Jewish Diaspora in Australia.
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Ingredients
220 g (8 oz) butter or margarine
220 g (8 oz) brown sugar
2 teaspoons black treacle
1 tablespoon whisky or rum (optional)
6 eggs
30 g (1oz) ground almonds
300 g (11 oz) plain flour
30 g (1 oz) self-raising flour
100 g (31⁄2 oz) chopped mixed peel
250 g (9 oz) sultanas
250 g (9 oz) currants
250 g (9 oz) raisins
milk
Preparation
A rich, fruity cake, this became popular at the end of the nineteenth century. The whisky may be omitted or replaced with another spirit.
Preheat the oven to 160°C (320°F). Grease and line a 23 cm (9 in) round cake tin.
Cream the butter, sugar, treacle and whisky until light and fl uff y. Add the eggs one at a time, mixing well as you go. Stir through the almonds, add the sieved fl ours and partly mix before adding the peel and dried fruits. Mix lightly but thoroughly until the batter is smooth. If mixture is too stiff, add a little milk to soften.
Pour mixture into the cake tin, covering it with baking paper to prevent burning. Bake near the middle of the oven for 21⁄2–3 hours, removing baking paper about 20 minutes before cake is finished.
Test with a toothpick – if the cake is still wet in the middle return it to the oven for further baking. Allow it to rest for 15 minutes before removing the cake from the tin and placing it on a wire rack. Cool and serve.
Recipe from Cooking from Memory by Hayley Smorgon, Gaye Weeden and Natalie King, with photographs by Mark Roper. Published by Hardie Grant Books.
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