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[Cherub]

The apparent secret is the use of "soor dook" (as was said in Edinburgh once upon a time (sour milk or cultured buttermilk these days)) to react with the baking powder to get a rise (plus an beaten egg if you had one, if not additional sour milk). Make your own sour milk by adding lemon juice to fresh milk and let it stand for around 20 minutes before using it.

Will give that a try. Thanks for that.

 

[bobnick]

I don't bake but i do cook. It's the only time i can get a decent meal.

 

[Shrimp]

My first MiL used to make a very easy fruit cake.
225g mix cake fruit.
113g soft marg.
160g sugar.
170g Plain flour.
2 eggs (3 if small).
1/2 tsp each Cinnamon & mixed spice.

Mix flour, sugar, spices together
Put cake fruit in a pan & just cover with water, bring to boil, poor away water, add warmed fruit and marg to dry ingredients, mix, add beaten eggs, beat well together.
Pour into lined cake tin & cook until a metal skewer, poked into middle of cake, comes away clean.

Sorry can’t give oven temp nor timing as I always cook it in my Remoska, just use another fruit cake for temp & time, and I don’t use a mixer for this either, it’s all done by hand!
I usually use this for my xmas cake and add chopped walnuts, cherries, stem ginger and dark chocolate, then feed the base of the cake with Brandy or Whiskey !

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