Christmas cake

Well, I can’t offer the recipe, but I can tell you that Mary Berry has a chart for different sized cake tins for rich fruit cakes on BBC Food.

Might help if you aren’t successful looking for the stork recipe.

Thanks WWM

I've made mine with the old BeRo book that belonged to my mum but here is a Stork one I just found. I don't know the year but newer versions never seem to change much.

If you're having trouble reading it here is the link. Click on the pic on the site to enlarge it.
bibliocook.com/2013/12/christmas-baking-with-stork-2/

Thank you Moonwatcher. That looks very near my recipe if not the same. The chart in my book has lots of different amounts of ingredients for various round or square cake tin sizes. However a round ten inch will be fine if no one has the other chart. Thank you for taking the trouble to post it for me.

I've lost my Sunday Times recipe for fruit cake .
It was wonderful .
The one trick that I've found invaluable in making fruit cake is to protect the uncooked cake with turkey foil on the outside of the tin and to bake it at a very low temperature .
I do mine overnight .

A double thickness of brown wrapping paper or even newspaper tied with string does the job as well .
The piece of greaseproof with a small circle in the middle laid on the top also stops it browning.
Delia also has a chart for different sizes of cake and as I recollect, also for square tins as well as round.

I always use the recipe my mum used to make my 21st cake. It’s from a 1970s Marks & Spencer recipe book. I do mine overnight in the bottom oven of the Rayburn well protected with layers of newspaper/foil/greaseproof under/around/on top! One thing I did last year which I shall do again this year is to soak the dried fruit overnight in liqueur.

My family recipe was also cooked overnight - bottom oven of the Aga.

RosieandherMaw

A double thickness of brown wrapping paper or even newspaper tied with string does the job as well .
The piece of greaseproof with a small circle in the middle laid on the top also stops it browning.
Delia also has a chart for different sizes of cake and as I recollect, also for square tins as well as round.

Yes, I use the brown paper and string round the tin.

I will check Delia's chart for different cake sizes . Thanks all for suggestions. I don't usually put greaseproof on top of the cake but sounds a good idea.

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Hope this helps. Sorry one photo has turned on its side, unfortunately I don’t know how to turn it around 😂

For decades I've used Delia's rich fruit cake recipe, add and subtract at my own discretion, Feed it with brandy now and then, delicious.

For years I made two Christmas cakes just as my Mum used to. She used a recipe given to her by the village baker and every year wrote down how much the ingredients cost.

One year my husband won an M and S Xmas cake and everybody said how wonderful it was so I stopped making my own. I now buy them from Aldi as we now prefer them to M and S.

Had a quick Google and found this recipe of any help

thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/christmas-cake/

Had a quick Google and found this if any help

thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/christmas-cake/

I think I have that Stork book, it's a bit late now, but I will have a look in the morning.

Thank you Compster - very useful. Also thanks Dee. What a great resource Gransnet is !

thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/christmas-cake/

I bought some silicon baking sheets on a roll from one of the shopping channels. It's all I use in my baking tins and on baking sheets. Food doesn't stick and you can cut it to fit whatever you want. But not for use under a grill only for oven cooking. It washes easily. I can only find it on Amazon now.
www.amazon.co.uk/Silicone-Non-Stick-Reusable-Cutting-Resistant/dp/B0D6BLTQFL/ref=sr_1_54?s=kitchen&crid=1F2G4UM96PXJI&keywords=silicone%2Bbaking%2Bsheet&sprefix=silicon%2Bbaking%2Bsheet%2Ckitchen%2C89&th=1&dib_tag=se&xpid=TufoLPNLg3Bn7&tag=gransnetforum-21&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.y8GWOEtx07PklgiksBbHNbb_Inx-mhq4c19rmY1s1O9FcxRUotqeCdWlC862OmsKt9MwrXzHZC3nxR_q7QO6Ky8nQjmyF-A_CttqaWRACBo.DVyBZltDPy5tgWJbdGbNXm4yqirRE72XqnjE5956Keg&qid=1761528791&sr=1-54

That’s my cake out after 12 hours in the bottom oven of the Rayburn last night. I’ll try and post a photo.

Ooh lovely Moth62 , bet your kitchen smells heavenly!

It does!

Especially since I’ve just poured a couple of spoonsful of whisky over the top.