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Hope you are Ok blossom…. I was once in a small quake 4.9 so I know how scary it is.
I might try your Tea Loaf :D
Boiled cake
This used to be a popular cake in South Wales, it’s a lovely moist fruit cake and is easy to make. My great aunt always had a boiled cake in a tin “just in case of visitors” :lol:If you want to make it more special you can either replace some of the milk with whisky, brandy or rum, or feed the cake after baking.
12 ozs mixed dried fruit
8 ozs butter
8 ozs soft brown sugar
½ pint milk
1lb plain flour
1 teaspoon mixed spice
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 teaspoon of salt
2 eggs1. Put the fruit, sugar milk and butter in a pan and bring to the boil. Boil for 2-3 minutes.
2. Leave to cool for 15 mins then add the flour, mixed spice, bicarbonate of soda, salt and eggs.
3. Mix well.
4. Turn into a greased cake tin and bake in a moderate oven (350°F, Gas 4, 180°C) for 1 to 1½ hours.Tip:
If you’re not sure about the consistency of the mixture, test it with the “count of 3 test” .
Pick up half a tablespoon and count .. 1 and 2 and 3 slowly. If the mixture drops off the spoon to the count of 3, its ok. If it drops off before add more flour, if it still sticks to the spoon after 3 then add more milk.
..@blossom‘ wrote:
@anc wrote:
@blossom‘ wrote:
@anc wrote:
Anyone know what temp I should put a loaf of bread into, in a cheapy elec, no fan thingy? Yesterday’s remarkably turned out ok, but I had it on 250 for nearly 2hrs!! Not sure that is quite right pmsl Hubby did point out – aren’t they wonderful, sometimes, not, that I only had the bottom part of the friggin oven on – well, how the feck am I meant to know ya gotta turn the grill bit on too ffs………………..Having said all that……..he is mowing the lawn! :lol:
Errr …. not too sure you should have the grill on :lol: , my electric oven has 4 options of heating it : Top of oven, Bottom of oven, both top and bottom on contemporaneously….and last but not least…..the grill :lol:
Perhaps yours is different though :?Sorry, haven’t got any tips for the bread ….as mine always turns out rubbish :lol:
Well he ate it! Must have been starving! pmsl
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Here’s a funny story for you anc, I knew of a person in my youth who once made a supposedly ‘steak and kidney pie’ for her husband ….. replacing the steak and kidney with a tin of dog food :lol:
Do you think your husband could taste the difference if you were to bake him a similair pie ? :lol:True story btw.
Not after the ’19’th! – However, what should I eat, I know, get some ice cream and baileys in for me! :lol:
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pmsl, he reckons he only has 3 – my aR rse!! lol ’tis not called the 19th for nothing!!! :lol:
Actually, thinking about it, bet he couldn’t even find his arR se!! hehehehehe – ‘cor he would kill me for typing that in, but laugh all the same :D
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