Leamington Festival Cake Recipe

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Ingredients

Directions

  1. The day before making mix together the orange rind and juice brandy cherries raisins sultanas and currants.
  2. Cover and leave to soak overnight.
  3. Cream together the sugar and butter till light and fluffy.
  4. Sieve together the flours salt and mixed spice.
  5. Beat in the Large eggs one at a time with 1 tsp flour to the butter mix.
  6. Mix in the remaining flour mix and grnd almonds.
  7. Add in the toasted minced nuts and soaked fruit.
  8. Mix the treacle golden brown syrup and lowfat milk together and stir into the cake mix. Stir well.
  9. When thoroughly mixed pour into a greased and lined 200mm deep round cake tin.
  10. To bake in the two oven aga put the oven shelf on the floor of the roasting oven put in the cake and slide the cool shelf two sets of runners above the top of the cake tin.
  11. Cook for 20 to 30 min don't allow to overbrown.
  12. Transfer to the simmering oven for 68 hrs depending upon the heat of the oven.
  13. Cooler ovens may need overnight cooking.
  14. For the four oven aga put the oven shelf on the floor of the baking oven put in the cake and bake for 30 min.
  15. Transfer to the simmering oven and bake as above.
  16. The cake is cooked when a hot skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean.
  17. Cold in the tin.
  18. Decorate with marzipan icing or possibly as liked.
  19. I have no idea where the name for this cake came front. We always made this as the christmas cake at college in gloucester and it has become a family favourite since.
  20. Makes one 200mm cake

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