Boiled fruitcake recipe?

It's supposed to be egg free

I mug cold tea
3 mugs dried fruit
1 mug brown sugar (original recipe used 2 but it was too sweet)
4oz butter

Put all in a large pan and bring to the boil, boil for 3 minutes and leave to cool

Stir in 2 cups of flour, you may need more, until you get to a dropping consistency.

Cook at 180° for at least half an hour, may take up to 45 minutes

The Katie Stewart boiled fruit cake is delicious and easy to make. Google "cuckfield.org" and it's on their website.

Rosesandlilac thank you for the recipe 😘

I've been using this one since the 1980's! I don't worry about brands, but include them for interest. 1 cup = 9 fl oz/250ml

It's the from the mother of a friend of a friend.

Gill's Mum's Australian Boiled Fruit Cake

8oz Stork or Echo margarine
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
8-12 oz dried fruit, nuts etc
pinch bicarbonate of soda
1 teaspoon mixed spice (optional)

Put all in a saucepan (chop the margarine), bring slowly to the boil then remove from the heat and allow to cool slightly.

Pour in 2 slightly beaten eggs and mix well. Then add

1 cup self raising flour
1 cup plain flour

and mix well. Put in 2 loaf tins in the centre of the oven at 350F 176C Regulo 4 for 40 minutes - 1 hour

MamGU12 your recipe is one I use all the time and it never fails. I tend to add rum or scotch into mine and nuts. Don’t use loaf tin always line a cake tin. Beautiful in fact my make one this afternoon. It’s my DH’S favourite cake however he eats it too quickly 😂😂

travelsafar

I use to make a boiled fruit cake years ago that had tinned pineapple in it. A very elderly lady gave me the recipe but sadly I've lost it. Does anyone have a copy?

travelsafar
This is my ‘go to’ for boiled fruit cake, given to me by my sister many years ago!

I’m in the hairdressers atm banning those greys and all these recipes have really made my mouth water ! Will def Will trying some and I’ve never heard of boiled fruit cake, thank you everyone

Forgive the splashes!

I make a lovely gluten free fruit cake whereby I boil the dried fruit first. The idea is that if you use dried fruit without 'plumping it up' the resulting cake can be dry because the dried fruit absorbs any moisture during cooking. I imagine soaking it overnight would be just as effective as boiling it?

That is a good recipe but I add strong cold tea and if time I soak overnight with fruit.

I use to make a boiled fruit cake years ago that had tinned pineapple in it. A very elderly lady gave me the recipe but sadly I've lost it. Does anyone have a copy?

Cherrytree I use my mum's recipe which is very similar to Callistemon's. There's a simple version and a Christmas version, which is the one I normally use. One year I totally forgot to put the eggs in - no-one noticed and it tasted fine, so I expect you could just leave them out of the recipe.

Baggs
All the recipe are similar to mine, but yours it seems has no eggs , is that correct?
I am always on the look out for egg free recipes as my daughter is allergic to eggs

The good housekeeping boiled fruit cake recipe is good, but very rich - more suited as a Christmas cake, so perhaps not what you’re after. It is very good though and worth bearing in mind for Christmas.

Mrs Atherton’s who ever she is never fails 🙂

I love these recipes plain simple ingredients and lovely old fashioned cakes so far removed from the shop bought ones.

I love all these.
Thank you.

This is one my mil used to make for our highland holidays. A slab of it at mountain summits went down very well.

4oz raisins
8oz chopped dates
6oz sultanas
4oz currants
10oz margarine
1/2 pint water
large tin condensed milk

Bring all of the above to the boil and simmer for 3 minutes. Leave to cool for half an hour.

5oz plain flour
5oz wholemeal flour
3/4 tsp bicarb of soda
salt
generous tablespoon of marmalade

I used to do it in a 10" square tin (lined) in a moderate oven for about an hour.

This cake keeps well and actually improves if you store it for a week or two before use.

At times I've thrown in some peanut butter, added beetroot powder, cranberries and chopped walnuts. It always works.

Deliaonline Sticky Prune and Date Cake is good too.

I made Mary Berry’s boiled fruit cake recently she uses condensed milk, which wasn’t very nice, even MrOops wouldn’t eat it.

I’ll try again with ordinary milk or use one of the recipes from other posters on here.

Thanks, I'll enjoy trying those

and baking powder
I forgot that!
It's years since I made it.

We always seem to have a couple of very ripe bananas so it's been banana and fruit cake for some time.

Throw it all into the mixer, bake.

MayBee that sounds like the one I used to make , it was so handy for having in the tin for visitors

Its quite versatile

Yes, it is
Add brandy, rum, spices, whatever you like

I didn’t know about boiling it. The one I make is one cup sugar, two cups of mixed fruit, one cup of hot tea. I add dried blueberries walnuts cherries and beetroot powder. Sometimes marmalade. I leave it overnight then add an egg and two cups of flour and baking powder. I’ve got a very old loaf tin which I line with paper, I don’t like the non stick tins that I bought more recently. Can you still get loaf tins?