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Sunday 2 October 2011

Simpul, delicious, fruitcake

Farm’ouse Fruit cake

I ain’t one foa eatin’ cake but this is really simpul an’ ‘olesome. It’s moa like a cake foa blokes who work on a buildin’ site an’ don’t want to look like Billies eatin’ girlie cake like éclairs an’ the like.









Ingredienz

Imperial                                                         Metric
Foa ounzes of plain flowa                              100grms of plain flour
A pinch of sawlt                                             A pinch of salt
Five ounzes of ‘olewheat flowa                     125grms of wholewheat flour
Too teespoonz of bakin’ powda                     2x15ml of baking powder
One teespoon of mixed spice                         1x5ml of mixed spice
Arf a teespoon of cinnamon                           1x2.5ml of cinnamon
Foa ounzes of braan shugga                           100gms of brown shugga
Foa ounzes of butta oa marge                         100grms of butter
Too ounzes of choppt mixed peel                   50grms of chopped mixed peel
Arf a paand of mixed dried fruit                     200gms of dried mixed fruit
Too free range eggs, beaten                            2 free range eggs, beaten
Too tablespoonz of marmalade                       2x15ml of marmalade
A wittle milk                                                   A little milk if necessary

Sift the plain flowa an’ sawlt into a large mixin’ bowl, then stir in the ‘olewheat flowa, bakin’ powda, mixed spice, cinnamon an’ shugga. Rub in the butta, stir in the remainin’ ingredienz an’ mix well: if the mixture is a wittle fick then add some milk. Spoon into a greased eight inch tin an’ bake in a warm oven, gas mk.free foa an ‘our an’ a arf. If the top of the cake becomes too braan durin’ the cookin’ then covva wiv some greaseproof paper. Finally, knock it out an’ place on wire rack to cool off. When it is cool, store it in a sealed tin.  

This is so simpul even mi fick norvern bird could make it. Mind you I awlways need to give her a wittle coachin' from behind, if you knows wot I mean