This is lovely toasted for breakfast, or great just sliced and buttered for an afternoon snack. It’s so simple, remembering to put the fruit to soak is probably the hardest bit!
For Picky Pickers who are a bit funny about dried fruit, make it plain first, then perhaps with just raisins and gradually introduce the mixed fruit.
Ingredients:
225g dried mixed fruit
225g self-raising flour
1 teaspoon mixed spice
120g caster sugar
250ml cold black tea
2 tablespoons orange marmalade
1 egg
Method:
1: Measure the dried fruit into a bowl, pour in the tea and leave to soak for at least a couple of hours. I tend to leave it in the fridge overnight.
2: Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celsius and grease a loaf tin.
3: Measure all the other ingredients into a large bowl, add the soaked fruit and remaining liquid and stir gently until combined.
4: Pop in the oven for about an hour until the top has browned and a skewer comes out clean when you stick it in the cake.
5: Leave to stand for 15 mins and then turn out of the tin and onto a wire rack to cool.
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