1950’s Commonplace Fruit Cake – Lavender and Lovage

This recipe for 1950’s Commonplace Fruit Cake makes a superb, gentle fruit cake, which is ideal for afternoon tea or elevenses.

A Classic Tea Time Recipe from a Frenlight Flour Cookery Guide

This recipe for 1950’s Commonplace Fruit Cake makes a fabulous, gentle fruit cake, which will be made in a normal spherical cake tin, or a loaf tin, as I’ve executed.

I found the recipe in an exquisite little cookery booklet from the 1950’s, by Frenlight Flour, which has a stunning assortment of baking recipes.

Frenlight Flour was milled in an English flour mill in Hertfordshire, and much like Be-Ro flour, they produced cookery booklets selling their flour.

Established in 1855, J W French & Co Flour Mills, proudly milled flour from house farm wheats, they are saying of their promoting leaflets from the period.

The unique recipe additionally suggests you could omit the combined dried fruit, and add marmalade, apricot or raspberry jam if you’d like.

It makes a light-weight fruit cake with glacé cherries, combined peel and unusually, vanilla AND almond essence (extract)

Serve this delightfully fruity cake for Elevenses, Afternoon Tea, or for a particular Sunday Tea Tray supper, with a pot of tea in fact.

I hope you get pleasure from this cake in case you make, and please so depart a remark beneath, I’d love to listen to the way you served it, and in case you loved it, Karen

Culinary Notes

• For a spicy cake, add 1/4 teaspoon combined spice and 1/4 teaspoon floor cinnamon to dry flour.
• For Apricot, Raspberry or Marmalade cake, substitute 4ozs (115g) of one in all these preserves for the dried fruit, mixing it in with the creamed sugar and fats combination.
• This cake will be made in a normal spherical cake tin, or a loaf tin, as I’ve executed.

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Recipe for 1950’s Commonplace Fruit Cake

1950’s Commonplace Fruit Cake

Yield:
12

Prep Time:
20 minutes

Prepare dinner Time:
1 hour quarter-hour

Complete Time:
1 hour 35 minutes

This recipe for 1950’s Commonplace Fruit Cake makes a fabulous, gentle fruit cake, which will be made in a normal spherical cake tin, or a loaf tin, as I’ve executed.

I found the recipe in an exquisite little cookery booklet from the 1950’s, by Frenlight Flour, which has a stunning assortment of baking recipes.

Frenlight Flour was milled in an English flour mill in Hertfordshire, and much like Be-Ro flour, they produced cookery booklets selling their flour.

Established in 1855, J W French & Co Flour Mills, proudly milled flour from house farm wheats, as they are saying of their promoting leaflets from the period.

The unique recipe additionally suggests you could omit the combined dried fruit, and add marmalade, apricot or raspberry jam if you’d like.

It makes a light-weight fruit cake with glacé cherries, combined peel and unusually, vanilla AND almond essence (extract).

Serve this delightfully fruity cake for Elevenses, Afternoon Tea, or for a particular Sunday Tea Tray supper, with a pot of tea in fact.

I hope you get pleasure from this cake in case you make, and please do depart a remark beneath, I might love to listen to the way you served it, and in case you loved it, Karen

Substances

• 8ozs (225g) Self-Elevating flour, sieved
• 4ozs (115g) caster sugar
• 6ozs (175g) combined dried fruit
• 2 eggs
• Milk, to combine
• 4ozs (115g) margarine or butter
• Pinch of salt
• 1oz (25g) chopped peel
• 20zs (50g) glacé cherries
• A bit of vanilla and almond essence (extract)

Directions

1. Line or grease a 7″, 8″ spherical cake tin, or a 1lb loaf tin with baking parchment. Cream the sugar and fats collectively till mushy and white.
2. Beat the eggs properly and steadily add them to the creamed combination.
3. Beat properly and add the combined dried fruit, peel, glacé cherries, vanilla and almond essence.
4. Fold within the sieved flour and salt alternately with the milk till the combination is mushy sufficient to drop simply from the tip of a wood spoon.
5. Put into lined or greased tin. Bake at 180C/375F/Fuel mark 4 for 1 hour to 1 hour and quarter-hour, within the centre of the oven.

Notes

For a spicy cake, add 1/4 teaspoon combined spice and 1/4 teaspoon floor cinnamon to dry flour.

For Apricot, Raspberry or Marmalade cake, substitute 4ozs (115g) of one in all these preserves for the dried fruit, mixing it in with the creamed sugar and fats combination.

Diet Data

Yield 12

Serving Measurement 1

Quantity Per Serving

Energy 81Complete Fats 2gSaturated Fats 1gTrans Fats 0gUnsaturated Fats 1gLdl cholesterol 35mgSodium 42mgCarbohydrates 12gFiber 1gSugar 3gProtein 3g