Recipe#6351

Title: Derbyshire Fruit Loaf (English)

SOAR

      Yield: 4 Servings
 
      1 lb Mixed dried fruit
      8 oz Sugar
    1/2 pt Hot tea
      1 x  Egg
      1 lb SR flour
    1/2 ts Mixed spice
    1/2 ts Grated nutmeg
      2 tb Marmalade
 
  Put the dried fruit and the sugar into a mixing bowl,
  add the hot tea and leave to  soak overnight. Next
  day, set oven to 300/F or Mark 2. Grease and line a 7
  inch cake tin or two 1 lb. loaf tins. Stir the egg,
  flour, spices and the marmalade into the fruit, sugar
  and tea mixture. Pour into the cake tin or the loaf
  tins. Bake for l 1/2 -2 hours until frm to the touch
  or until a skewer pushed into the cake comes out
  clean. Do not open the oven during the first hour of
  baking time. This cake will keep well.