Friday 12 December 2014

Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories 2014: Fruitcake - Friend or Foe?

by James Petts via Wikimedia Commons
The Christmas cake I ate as a small child was dark and rich - too rich - so one year my mum found a recipe for Boiled Cake which we used afterwards - it was still a fruitcake, but much lighter. Incidentally, you didn't boil the cake, just the ingredients beforehand... Here is the recipe (makes a big cake for about 12):

Boiled Cake
250ml (8 fl oz) water
900g (2 lb) dried mixed fruit
225g (8 oz) caster sugar (or light muscavado sugar)
170g (6 oz) butter
230g (8 oz) plain flour
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 teaspoon of mixed spice
2 eggs, beaten

Boil the water, dried fruit, sugar and butter for about 10 minutes.
Sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda, and mixed spice into a large bowl.
Pour on the boiled mixture and stir well.
Mix in the eggs.
Pour into a lined loaf tin
Bake for 90 minutes at 150 C or Gas Mark 2
Let stand for 10 minutes

It tastes better about 24 hours after you have baked it! Some cooks like to add elderflower cordial to the water, some use cold tea instead of the water, some add treacle.


[This post originally appeared in 2012 (link here]




The Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories (ACCM) allows you to share your family’s holiday history twenty-four different ways during December! Learn more at http://adventcalendar.geneabloggers.com.    

2 comments:

  1. This recipe sounds much better than many others. I am not a fruitcake fan because of all the stuff inside it and it weighs a ton usually. Thank you for showing the Advent calendar as I love this time of year and have had advent Calendars (just pictures) since I was a kid.

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  2. As my birthday is near the end of November, one friend always sends me a chocolate Advent Calendar every year to use. Yummy!

    I really recommend Boiled Cake for Christmas cake. It is much nicer.

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