Sultana Cake
"Another recipe from my Facebook friends. It comes from Jo Seagar (A heritage recipe from New Zealand's baking archives “Chelsea Best Ever”, 2001)"
- Ready In:
- 2hrs 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
-
1 cake
ingredients
- 500 g sultanas
- 250 g butter
- 1 1⁄4 cups caster sugar
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 3 eggs
- 2 cups flour
- 1⁄2 cup self-raising flour
- 1⁄4 cup milk
- 1⁄2 cup mixed candied peel
directions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C
- Place sultanas in a saucepan and just cover with water.
- Bring to the boil then simmer for 5 minutes. Drain and cool.
- Mix butter and sugar until light and fluffy, add lemon juice, grated rind and vanilla essence.
- Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each egg.
- Add the both of flour and milk, then stir in the sultanas and candied peel.
- Pour into a well greased 21-23 cm square cake tin with the base lined with baking paper.
- Bake for 1 hour then reduce the temperature to 160°C and bake for a further 50-60 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
- Cool in the tin and store in an airtight container. Fruitcakes like this are best left for 12 hours before slicing.
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<p>Thanks in advance if you are making any of my recipes, and I hope that you like them as I do. <br /> <br />I grew up in the US, but I have spent most of the last few years in Europe now live in Germany, with my German husband. Much of the time that I have lived in Europe, I have lived in international student housing so I have lived with and cooked with people from all over world. I have also have had to learn to improvise a bit because it isn't always easy to get the foods I miss from the US here. <br /> <br />My husband is a good cook and likes to cook when he has time, but he quite often makes what he knows, mainly German food. So I am the one feeding him strange things. :D My husband has recently taken up hunting so I am having to learn how to cook game: wild boar, deer, hares and geese are the most common things hunted here. It isn't easy to find things for wild boar so I am trying to publish ones that I find that we really liked. <br /> <br />I like Recipezaar because I can easily find recipes for whatever I am in the mood, or whatever I happen to have laying around when I am too lazy to walk to the supermarket. :) I like trading tips with the people at the Asian and the German/Benelux forums, I lurk there mostly, but post when I have questions or think that I can help. <br /> <br />My reviews are mainly 4 or 5 stars because I won't try anything that I don't think that I will like. 5 stars is it was great, will make again, only very minor changes were made, if any. 4 stars is it was very good, will probably make again, made some changes to adjust to my taste. 3 stars is it was okay, probably won't make again but I didn't really mind eating it. I haven't had anything here that I thought was lower than that, which is good with how picky I am. I'll try most new things if it sounds good, but I am not afraid to say if I don't like it. I quite often make my own recipes out of some of the ones I find here, and don't post recipe reviews if I radically changed it.</p>
