Cut and Come Again Cake

Name: Cut and Come Again Cake
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h 20 min
Total time: 1 h 35 min
Yield: 6-8 serving(s)
Ingredients: 8 ounces cake flour; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon mixed spice; 4 ounces butter or 4 ounces margarine; 4 ounces sugar; 9 ounces mixed dried fruit; 1 teaspoon grated oranges or 1 teaspoon fresh lemon rind; 1 egg; 2 1/2 fluid ounces milk; 2 1/2 fluid ounces water, mixed with the milk

Submitted by Angela Sara

"This is a good home made fruit cake my mother used to make that keeps really well, but it didn't stay around for long in our house! From an old Mcdougall's Cookery Book."

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Ready In:: 1hr 35mins
Ingredients:: 10
Serves:: 6-8

ingredients

8 ounces cake flour
¹⁄₄ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon mixed spice
4 ounces butter or 4 ounces margarine
4 ounces sugar
9 ounces mixed dried fruit
1 teaspoon grated oranges or 1 teaspoon fresh lemon rind
1 egg
2 ¹⁄₂ fluid ounces milk
2 ¹⁄₂ fluid ounces water, mixed with the milk

directions

Preheat oven to Gas 4/360F degrees.
Grease and line a 6 inch tin.
Sift flour, salt and spice together.
Add fat to dry ingredients.
Rub until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
Stir in sugar add beaten egg and milk/water mix.
Beat well for a minute.
Add dried fruit.
Bake for 1 hour 20 minutes.

Questions & Replies

Thrilled to find a recipe for Cut and Come Again cake, which my darling Mum used to make. She used the McDougals recipe book a lot! I seem to remember she used lard for hers. Does anyone else remember lard instead of butter, or maybe a mixture?

greenstreetann

Reviews

This is a really good cake. So easy to make too. This is soooo much better than back in the days of the dried out fruit cakes noone wanted at Christmas time! I did add several glace cherry halves in addition to the dried fruit and adjusted the cooking time a bit. I baked mine in a regular bread pan for one hr and it came out just right. Very moist and very tasty. Thank you so much for sharing this recipe Angela. I will def make it again.

rredrose126