How To make Christmas Cake(British)
2 lb Mixed dried fruit
4 oz Glace' cherries
4 oz Candied fruit
3 oz Blanched almonds
10 oz Plain flour
1 x Pinch salt
1/4 ts Bicarbonate of soda
1 t Mixed spice
4 x Eggs
1/2 ts Flavoring (vanilla, lemon)
1 tb Blackstrap molasses
8 oz Butter
8 oz Soft brown sugar
1 x Whisky to soak fruit
250 ml Milk (to mix)
(Note: (1) The mixed dried fruit should be such things as seedless raisins and currants. (2) The 1/2 teaspoon of "flavoring" can be almond, or lemon, or vanilla, or a mixture of the three. (3) "Mixed spice" is a combination of cinnamon, allspice and mace: about 1/3 of each.) -- Find a 9-inch cake pan at least three inches deep; grease it, and line the bottom and sides with a double thickness of greased baking parchment. Tie folded brown paper or newspaper around the outside of the pan. (The paper is insulation, to keep the sides of the cake from scorching as it bakes.) Set oven to 320-300F: have folded paper to stand the pan on when baking -- place low in oven. Pick over the dried fruit, removing any stems, etc. Wash, drain well and spread over a cloth on a tray to dry. When dry, put in a bowl and pour a small wine-glass of spirit over it. Cover well and leave overnight.
Next day, add chopped peel, blanched chopped almonds, and cherries minced and drained. Mix thoroughly. Sift together the flour, salt, soda and spice. Beat the eggs well with the molasses and flavoring. Put the butter into a large warmed bowl and beat until soft; then add the sugar and beat until light and creamy. Beat in the egg mixture, about a sixth of it at a time, then fold in half the flour mixture. Add remainder of the flour to the fruit and mix well. Add fruit to creamed mixture and fold in well. Put into pan and bake for about 3 1/2 to 4 hours or until done. If top of cake is browning too fast, cover with a few thicknesses of paper. Reduce the oven heat slightly every hour :
about 10 degrees. Test with skewer for doneness. Keep the paper wrapped around the cake in place until completely cooled, so that the cooling takes place slowly. After completely cooled, invert the cake, lift the baking parchment off the bottom, and sprinkle the cake generously with the spirit of your choice. Wrap well in foil, put in a sealed tin, and keep in a cool place (not necessarily refrigerated) . The cake benefits from occasional unwrappings and sprinkling with more spirit. It takes about 2 months to achieve maximum "mellowness".
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Ingredients:
1 cup mixed glazed fruits, chopped
½ cup dried apricots, chopped
½ cup dried cranberries
½ cup dark raisins
½ cup candied orange peel
1 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped
½ cup golden raisins
1 cup pecans
1 cup pitted dates
½ cup green candied cherries
½ cup red candied cherries
¾ cup rhum
1 ½ cup all purpose flour
1 tsp cinnamon
½ tsp allspice
½ tsp nutmeg
½ tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
½ cup (113g) softened butter, unsalted
1 cup packed brown sugar
3 eggs, medium
⅓ cup molasses
2 tablespoons rhum
*Divide evenly into three 6x3x2.5 loaf pans greased and lined
*Bake in a preheated oven at 165C for 1 hr 30 mins or until toothpick inserted at the center comes out clean (you can opt to bake them using baine marie method for even cooking and prevent the cake from drying out or just bake them longer at lower temperature)
*Cool completely and brush all over with rhum or brandy
*Wrap them individually in aluminum foil and refrigerate. Avoid touching with bare hands to prevent spoilage
*Brush them again with rhum after a week then repeat brushing for four weeks
*To make a chocolate fruit cake, replace 1/2 cup of flour with alkalized unsweetened cocoa powder
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Christmas is approaching so Mrs Crocombe is making a cake for Lord and Lady Braybrooke at Audley End House.
This traditional plum cake is based on a recipe by Charles Francatelli, who was Queen Victoria's chief cook from 1840 to 1841.
INGREDIENTS
680g plain flour
680g butter
450g caster sugar
450g dried chopped cherries
680g currants
680g candied peel
225g ground almonds
8 eggs
Zest of four oranges
15g ground spices (cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg)
½ pint of brandy
For the almond paste:
225g ground almonds
450g caster sugar
A little orange water
3-4 egg whites
For the icing:
6 egg whites
680g icing sugar
Lemon Juice
METHOD
Preheat your oven to 160ºC, 320ºF or gas mark 3.
Line a large cake tin with butter and greaseproof paper.
Soften your butter, then combine with the sugar, flour and eggs gradually. Then incorporate the cherries, currants, candied peel, ground almonds, spices and brandy until you have a thick mixture.
Pour this mix into your lined cake tin, then place in a preheated oven and bake until a skewer comes out clean when placed into the centre of the cake. This will take around six hours, but keep an eye on it.
Once your cake is out of the oven, remove it from the tin and leave it to cool on a wire rack. You can then make the almond paste.
Mix the ground almonds, caster sugar and orange water together in a bowl. Slowly add in the egg whites, and mix until the mixture comes together into a dough. You may not need to use all of the egg whites, so keep an eye on the consistency of the mixture so it doesn’t become too thin.
Take your almond paste and roll it out until it is around 5mm thick. Using your cake tin as a guide, cut out a circle to cover the top of the cake, and a strip to encircle the sides. You can then place it over the cake, using jam or water as a glue if necessary.
Next you can make the icing by mixing the egg whites and fine sugar together. Add a few drops of lemon juice until the mixture becomes spreadable. Cover the cake in this icing mixture and leave this in a dry place until it turns hard.
You can then decorate the cake by piping on some more icing. It’s up to you to choose your decorating style, but if you’d like to keep it authentically Victorian we suggest writing a Christmas message onto your cake. You can add a little food colouring to your icing to create an array of colours for your cake.
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* 3 cups (15 oz/426 g) raisins
* ⅓ cup (2 oz/58 g) candied peel
* 1 medium orange, zested
* 1 medium lemon, zested
* 1 cup (8 fl oz/225 ml) O'Driscoll's Irish Whiskey (or apple juice/orange juice*)
* 1 ½ cups (8 oz/225 g) glace cherries
* 2 cups (10 oz/282 g) all-purpose flour
* 1 teaspoon mixed spice
* ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
* 1 ¼ cups (10 oz/300 g) butter, room temperature
* 1 ⅔ cups (13 oz/367 g) muscovado sugar (or dark brown sugar)
* 5 large eggs, room temperature
* ½ cup (2 ½ oz/71 g) chopped or sliced almonds
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2:35 How to prepare the cherries for your Christmas Cake
3:11 Dry ingredients
3:53 Creaming together the butter and sugar
4:38 Adding in the eggs
4:46 Adding the dry to the wet
4:57 Finishing the batter
6:00 Adding the batter to the pan
6:16 How to bake your Christmas Cake
6:36 Out of the oven
6:50 How to feed a Christmas Cake
7:20 How to store & feed a Christmas Cake
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