Gluten Free Boiled Fruit Cake
"This is a gluten free variation of a recipe from "My Daily Dinner Cookery Book", which cost my mother three shillings, or $AUD0.30 many years ago."
photo by Vickie C.
- Ready In:
- 1hr 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
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1 large cake
- Serves:
- 20
ingredients
- 125 g butter or 125 g margarine
- 1⁄2 kg mixed dried fruit
- 1 teaspoon allspice
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1⁄2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup cold water
- 1 apple, deseeded and chopped (or grated)
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup besan (chick pea flour)
- 1 cup glutinous-rice flour
- 2 teaspoons gluten free baking powder
directions
- 1. Place butter, spices, fruit, bicarbonate soda, apple, water and sugar in a saucepan and bring to the boil.
- 2. Boil for two minutes.
- 3. Cool a little.
- 4. Sift dry ingredients.
- 5. Mix in the rest of the ingredients.
- 6. Bake at 175C for 50-60 minutes.
Questions & Replies
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Please let me know what size cake tin is required. Thank you.
Reviews
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oh my giddy aunt, you nailed it this recipe is perfect. The biggest tin I had was approx to a lasagne size tin, cake turned our perfect, thankyou
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This was the best boiled fruit cake that I have ever made, including the ones I used to make with gluten. The besan and glutinous flours are genius, I don't know how you came up with it as it sounds weird, but it made an amazingly light fruitcake. It was wonderful. The only thing I did differently was change the apple for 1 cup of steamed and mashed pumpkin (my Mother's version of boiled fruit cake) Thanks for this recipe, this is the only way I will make it from now on.
Tweaks
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1 cup of mashed pumpkin instead of the apple and I added it after I had boiled the fruit cake. I also used dried figs, craisins, raisins, currants and prunes instead of mixed fruit as that was what was in my cupboard and I like figs.
