Light Fruit Cake

I have spent this afternoon trawling through my old Recipe notes book which is a scrap book of magazine articles and hand written recipes and looking to reinstate them again for regular use.

This is very delicious cake and something I used to make on a regular basis. Looks like it needs ressurecting.

Ingredients

8 oz self raising flour
pinch of salt
1/2 teaspoon of mixed spice
4oz margarine
4oz demerara sugar
6oz dried fruit mixture
2 eggs
3-4 tablespoons milk
Demerara sugar for topping

Method

1. To the flour add the salt and mixed spice then rub in the margarine until like a crumble mix.
2. Add the sugar and dried fruit mixture and mix evenly so that the ingredients are distributed evenly.
3. In a separate bowl beat together the eggs and then add the milk.
4. Add to the rest of the ingredients combining well.
5. Line a deep cake pan with greaseproof or baking parchment, making sure that you grease the lining well (I melt a little butter or margarine in a pan then brush on after I have the pan lined to my satisfaction).
6. Add the cake mixture finishing off with a sprinkle of demerara sugar and cook at oven temperature 350 degrees F until the cake is golden brown and a skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean.
7. Leave to cool.
8. Serve at tea time or as a cut and come again cake.

Enjoy

1. Remove wrapping