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Farmhouse Fruit Cake

Farmhouse Fruit Cake

Ingredients

8oz SR Flour
8oz Granulated Sugar
2oz Sultanas
2oz Currants
2tbsn mixed peel or do as I do and grate a carrot,
4oz butter
2 beaten eggs
4 tbspns Milk
A little Demerara Sugar

Directions

Heat oven to 180C

Grease and line a 7" round cake tin

Rub the butter into the flour

Add the sugar and fruit, stir to mix it through

Add the eggs , beating them in with a wooden spoon

Add enough milk to give a dropping consistantcy

Step 7

Put into the cake tin

Sprinkle the top with Demerara sugar and pat it down

Bake for about an hour or until a skewer comes out clean

If the top is browning too much , cover it with baking paper.

Cool in the tin for 5 minutes and then put onto a wire rack to continue cooling

Ingredients

 8oz Self Raising Flour
 8oz Granulated Sugar
 2oz Sultanas
 2oz Currants
 2tbsn mixed peel or do as I do and grate a carrot,
 4oz butter
 2 beaten eggs
 4 tbspns Milk
 A little Demerara Sugar

Directions

1

Heat oven to 180C

2

Grease and line a 7" round cake tin

3

Rub the butter into the flour

4

Add the sugar and fruit, stir to mix it through

5

Add the eggs , beating them in with a wooden spoon

6

Add enough milk to give a dropping consistantcy

7

Put into the cake tin

8

Sprinkle the top with Demerara sugar and pat it down

9

Bake for about an hour or until a skewer comes out clean

10

If the top is browning too much , cover it with baking paper.

11

Cool in the tin for 5 minutes and then put onto a wire rack to continue cooling

Farmhouse Fruit Cake

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