use your baking cupboard staples and old bread to make this . Delicious warm with custard or cold as a cake
Ingredients
8oz old bread , brown or white , crusts removed
1/2 pint milk
8oz dried fruits ( sultanas , raisins , currants )
2oz suet
2-3tbspn mixed spice
2oz soft brown sugar , you can use ordinary caster sugar
1 beaten egg
Grated nutmeg ( optional )
1 tbspn granulated sugar
Directions
Break the bread into small pieces and put into a bowl
Pour over the milk and leave for 30 minutes
Heat the oven to 180C
Beat the bread and milk mixture together with a fork
Grease a 7" tin
Add all the fruit , brown sugar , suet ,egg and spice to the bread and mix really well to combine ( you may need to get your hands in )
Pour into the prepared tin and flatten the top
Grate a little nutmeg over the top
Bake in centre of the oven for 1-1.5 hrs
Take out of oven and sprinkle over the granulated sugar
Leave to cool in the in
This used to be a great treat when I was a kid in the UK (I’m 70 now)
My Nan and Mum made it regularly and was lovely warm or cold.
Was also known as “the dustman’s wedding cake”
at last found the recipe so similar to the one Mum used to make, made it at lesat 4 times now, winner all the way
Very similar to what my Gran made back in the 60’s, only she used to soak the fruit in brandy overnight. I make it with or without the brandy.
Husband loves it and I make it every couple of months.