Ingredients 150gm plain flour 1 tsp mace or mixed spice (if you can’t get it use mixture of cinnamon and ginger) 1 tsp nutmeg 100gm beef suet (difficult to get but margarine works as well) 500gm sultanas, raisons, currants mix or all of 1 75gm brown sugar 1 carrot peeled and grated Finely grated rind …
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Farmor’s Christmas Cake
Ingredients – this makes a fairly large cake cut amounts for smaller 825gm sultanas, raisons, currants mix or all of 1 150gm glace cherries chopped 200gm mixed peel Finely grated rind of 1 lemon 290gm plain flour 1 tsp mixed spice OR ½ tsp of ginger powder, ½ tsp nutmeg, ½ tsp cinnamon 290gm butter …
Scones
Ingredients 250gm plain flour 50gm marg or butter 50gm sugar 1 heaped tsp baking powder 50gm currant, sultanas, dried figs (optional) milk to mix Mix flour, baking powder, sugar and marg with fork, mix in dried fruit (or not). should be dry flaking consistency, add milk slowly until mixture sticks together not too wet. Roll …
Marzipan icing for Christmas cake
220g ground almonds 220g icing sugar 1 egg 1 tsp almond essence Orange juice (or orange juice + rum) Mix almonds and sugar and egg yolk (use white of egg to brush on top of cake to make marzipan stick). Add almond essence + orange juice and rum. Mixture should be a little sticky, knead …
Lemon drizzle cake
200 gm butter or margarine 200 gm sugar 4 eggs 2 lemons 200 gm plain flour 2 tsp baking powder pinch of salt Drizzling liquid – 1 dl lemon juice and 100 gm icing sugar Beat butter and sugar together, add eggs and the finely grated peel of both lemons (only peel no juice), beat …