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| Easy Family Fruit Cake |
Ingredients
2 cups of self-raising flour
1/2 cup of butter
1 teaspoon finely grated lemon rind
2/3 cup mixed dried fruit
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
5 tablespoons of milk
Method
Sift the flour into a bowl (or stir flour well with a whisk).
Rub the butter into the flour and then stir in the lemon rind, fruit and sugar.
Mix with a spoon into a batter with the egg and milk.
Pour mixture into a greased, lined cake pan.
Bake for 1 1/4 -1 1/2 hours at 180°.
Leave cake to cool in cake pan for at least 5 minutes, before turning out onto cake rack.
Recipe Stars
Dried fruits also contain more fiber and more of the antioxidants called phenols than fresh fruit.
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