BOILED CAKE ( POOR MAN'S FRUITCAKE)
Make and share this Boiled Cake ( Poor Man's Fruitcake) recipe from Food.com.
Provided by CJAY8248
Categories Dessert
Time 1h10m
Yield 4 loaves, 24-30 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Boil sugar, shortening, raisins, salt, and water (do not boil dates). Add dry ingredients, dates and walnuts to the boiled mixture. Bake at 325* in (2) 8"x8"x2" pans or in (1) 13"x9"x2" pan for 60-75 minutes. Allow to cool and divide into 4 "loaves". Wrap well and store. Serve sliced and plain or with hard sauce. This cake will stay moist for many months, but keeps best when moistened with rum or brandy.
BOILED FRUIT CAKE
Mum's never fail fruit cake. It has always tasted great. Mum doesn't use the sherry or the marmalade. Mums alteration is a can of crushed pineapple and 1 teaspoon of bicarb soda.
Provided by Tracey_B
Categories Dessert
Time 2h20m
Yield 1 cake
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Place the mixed fruit, sugar, spice, water and butter in a large saucepan and bring to the boil. Simmer gently for 3 minutes, then remove and allow to cool. Add the sherry, eggs and marmalade. Fold in the sifted ingredients mixing well. Place mixture in a greased and lined 20cm round cake pan. For a crunchy topped cake, sprinkle over the muesli and docorate with a few walnuts and cherries before baking, Bake in a moderatley slow oven for 2 1/4 hours or until cooked when tested. (N.B. cover loosely with a sheet of foil or brown paper if top of cake os overbrowinging during cooking).
Nutrition Facts : Calories 4185.9, Fat 116.4, SaturatedFat 67.7, Cholesterol 690.1, Sodium 1741.6, Carbohydrate 660.4, Fiber 38.8, Sugar 200.3, Protein 52.2
POOR MAN'S CAKE
Make and share this Poor Man's Cake recipe from Food.com.
Provided by GrandmaIsCooking
Categories Dessert
Time 1h10m
Yield 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Boil together all ingredients.
- Add water just enough water to cover raisins.
- Boil until raisins are tender.
- Cool.
- Add 1 t baking soda and enough Unbleached flour to make a stiff batter.
- Pour batter into 9-inch round cake pan.
- Bake in moderate oven until cake springs back when touched lightly (about 1 hour at 350 degrees F).
- Serve warm or cold with cream, custard sauce or powdered sugar frosting.
- Walnuts may be added to batter just before baking.
NAN'S BOILED FRUIT CAKE
A Very Moist Fruit Cake - passed down from my nan
Provided by ijhawkins
Time 2h
Yield Serves 8
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Place all the ingredients for the fruit mix in a large saucepan bring to the boil and allow to cool for about 30 minutes
- Preheat oven to 160C / Gas 3
- Add the cherries and nuts stir through
- then add eggs and mix well, add the flour and fold through the mix.
- Place the mixture in a greased and floured 8' - deep cake tin. Tie some greaseproof paper around the outside of the tin so that the paper comes over the edges of the tin or optionally place over the top about half way through baking. Bake for 2 hours but check after 1.5 hours , check to see if cooked throughly with a skewer. If not bake a little further until the skewer comes out clean from the cake. Allow to cool and either decorate with marzipan and royal icing, or dried apricots and cherries and glaze with melted apricot jam or plain is very nice too.
BEST BOILED FRUITCAKE
This recipe produces a really moist fruit cake it was given to me by my mom, and it's really easy. My mom uses it for Christmas cake by icing it. I use it for birthdays, Christmas, or just for a treat.
Provided by Mark Richards
Categories Desserts Fruit Dessert Recipes Cherry Dessert Recipes
Yield 10
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (160 degrees C). Line one 8 inch deep sided cake tin with parchment paper.
- Place the fruit cherries, peel, walnuts, sugar, butter or margarine, mixed spice, baking soda and milk in a medium sized saucepan. Bring to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes. Let mixture cool to body temperature.
- Stir in the flour and the eggs. Pour batter into the prepared pan. Wrap outside of pan with brown paper or newspaper.
- Bake at 325 degrees F (160 degrees C) for 40 minutes then reduce temperature to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C) and continue to baking cake for 1-1/2 hours. Remove cake from oven and allow it to cool in tin for 5 minutes then turn it out onto a cooling rack, remove greaseproof paper and leave until cool. Cake can be stored for up to 6 months wrapped in foil and in an air tight tin.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 587.5 calories, Carbohydrate 99.4 g, Cholesterol 75.8 mg, Fat 19.4 g, Fiber 1.5 g, Protein 6.6 g, SaturatedFat 9.8 g, Sodium 621.1 mg, Sugar 38.4 g
POOR MANS CAKE III
This recipe if from the l930's. My Grandmother gave it to my Mother and she gave it to me. Now I am a grandmother and passed it down to my kids. It's really good. You don't have to dirty your mixer for this one, just a big bowl.
Provided by Jill D
Categories Desserts Cakes Fruitcake Recipes
Time 1h30m
Yield 24
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) grease and flour a 9x13 inch pan.
- In a saucepan mix brown sugar, raisins, water and shortening. Bring to a boil and boil 3 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool.
- In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. When raisin mixture is cool, add to dry ingredients and mix well to combine.
- Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 30 or 40 minutes. Do not over bake or it will be too dry. Test after 30 minutes. A toothpick inserted into the center of cake should come out clean.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 186.4 calories, Carbohydrate 30.9 g, Fat 6.7 g, Fiber 1.1 g, Protein 2 g, SaturatedFat 1.7 g, Sodium 206.3 mg, Sugar 16.1 g
FABULOUS BOILED FRUITCAKE
A very tasty boiled fruit cake its not heavy--simple to make and inexpensive. this has become a firm favorite with the family This was given to me well over 40 years ago, by an Australian farmers wife. She used to do all her baking in an old wood stove!
Provided by JoyfulCook
Categories Lunch/Snacks
Time 1h20m
Yield 12 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Place the sugar, water,margarine, bicarbonate of soda and dried fruit in a medium saucepan and slowly bring to the boil. As soon as it starts to boil, remove and leave to completely cool.
- Add the well beaten egg, mixed spice, pinch of salt, and the flour; mix well.
- Line a 9-inch cake tin. Cook at approximately 170°C for about an hour to an hour and a quarter.
- To stop it drying out while cooling, it's advisable to drape a clean tea towel over the cake after about half an hour.
- NB - if you are in a hurry for the fruit to cool - place saucepan in some cold water in the sink, iit will cool in under half the time.
BOILED FRUITCAKE
I know a lot of people don't like fruitcake, but I love it and can't understand what's not to love;-). This is a nice simple one from my high school cookbook. I've made a couple of changes to the original recipe over the years.
Provided by JustJanS
Categories Dessert
Time 1h10m
Yield 1 cake
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Preheat your oven to 350f.
- Place the sugar, water, fruit, peel, glace cherries, almond, spices, soda and butter in a saucepan.
- Bring to the boil stirring constantly.
- Remove from the heat when it reaches the boil, and allow to cool for 5 minutes.
- Add the beaten egg, sifted flours and pour into a prepared tin-greased and lined 7 inch square or 8 inch round cake tin.
- Bake for 1 hour, allow to cool in the tin for 15 minutes before removing to cool on a rack.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 4032, Fat 125.4, SaturatedFat 63.8, Cholesterol 667, Sodium 2098.9, Carbohydrate 694.9, Fiber 81, Sugar 203.4, Protein 64.6
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