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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Many years ago,  on the side of the Sainsbury's flour packet, there was an easy recipe for a fruit cake. The cake had tinned crushed pineapple  it.  Does anyone have a recipe?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Don’t have that one but there’s this online … looks good 
    https://www.abc.net.au/radio/recipes/boiled-pineapple-fruitcake/8937906

    If that’s not right  I’ve got a friend on the food forum who has a well known baking blog … shall I ask her?  If she doesn’t have it one of her followers might …

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    The thing is, @Dovefromabove, I don't remember it being boiled but I suppose it might have been. It was certainly moist and crumbly . Most recipes on Google  are for boiled too.
    The recipe you linked looks nice and easy. Worth a try. Thank you 😋
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • I’ll ask Sue and see what she says. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • I have the rumblings in my loins for making a game pie and pickling an ox tongue for Christmas!
    I have started assembling and preparing the game meat to spread the load. Bought a lovely fresh tongue yesterday so will be able to start the pickling process. I did one a couple of years ago, it was lovely, so much better than shop tongue. A bit of a faff but worth it.
    I found venison, pheasant, wild rabbit, herby sausage meat and pork belly yesterdayl so well on the way for the pie. 
    All I have to do now is take all of my frozen blackcurrants out of the freezer to make room for the meat. I make blackcurrant cordial from my fruit, it makes a lovely hot drink for the cold winter evenings.
    Not much time for getting up to mischief for me for the next few days.
  • Oooh yes @JoyceGoldenlily ... I used to love making that, but my OH and offsprung aren't keen so I'd have to eat it all myself ... I could .... but it wouldnt be good for me.  There's a butcher a few miles away who makes his own so I buy that. 

    Ma used to do a really good pressed tongue ... but the butcher in the next village used to brine it for her.  I remember a school friend saying 'What's your mother cooking?  It smells lovely' and then lifting the lid off the pan to have a look and seeing the tongue ....  she nearly fainted 🤣

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    edited November 2021
    A Lincolnshire favourite for a fruit cake, is a tea soaked fruit . You would find it in most households,  but nobody makes their own now.

    My personal favourite is a Cut and Come Again cake. It's a light fruit cake, very crumbly..
  • @purpleralim I make a boiled fruitcake (i've spoken of it on here before) and I sometimes soak the fruit overnight in cold tea ... it's delicious. 😋

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    I got a tip on here a few years ago to soak the fruit for my Christmas pudding in tea. It went down so well - exclamations of delight, no less - that I've never looked back 
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • B3 said:
    Many years ago,  on the side of the Sainsbury's flour packet, there was an easy recipe for a fruit cake. The cake had tinned crushed pineapple  it.  Does anyone have a recipe?
    @B3 my friend EM has made this ... she's going to search for it for you when she gets a moment (she's looking after grandchild!) ... she's had a recipe cull in the past few years but doesn't remember discarding this one.  :D

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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