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Christmas cake

(33 Posts)
RosieandherMaw Tue 21-Oct-25 07:44:34

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.

Esmay Tue 21-Oct-25 07:15:07

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 .

mumofmadboys Tue 21-Oct-25 06:22:18

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.

Moonwatcher1904 Tue 21-Oct-25 00:02:19

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/

Moonwatcher1904 Mon 20-Oct-25 23:57:26

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.

mumofmadboys Mon 20-Oct-25 23:54:49

Thanks WWM

Whitewavemark2 Mon 20-Oct-25 23:45:53

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.

mumofmadboys Mon 20-Oct-25 23:42:06

I always use an old Stork recipe book to make my Christmas cake. I was thinking it was about time to make it and the said recipe book has disappeared! Despite searching everywhere it has gone! Does anyone have a Stork cook book from the 1980's? There is a chart of the ingredients for different size tins under Rich fruit cakes. If anyone has it ,would it be possible to photograph that page please? Many thanks