Cream the butter and sugar
Add the egg
Dry ingredients
Fold them into the mixture
Add the fruit and some other yummy stuff
Mix it all together
Into the tin and wrap it up
And into the oven you go (140 degrees Celsius – 4.5 hours with no peeking for the first four hours)
It’s quite fun, but have to say not as profound as the author thinks it is.
The recipe is of course taken from The Blessed Delia. This is in fact the actual copy of Delia Smith’s Complete Cookery Course that I was given when I went to university (which I simply cannot accept was twenty-seven years ago, but that’s what the numbers say). The book is all dog-eared, the hard cover has fallen to bits, it’s dotted with strange cooking stains and I still refer to it at least weekly.
Currants
Sultanas
Glace Cherries
All the fruit mixed together
A generous dollop of brandy
And leave it all to soak overnight.
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OK, it works really well except that I can only do one picture per post. Looks like I’ll still have to use Photobucket for posts with more than one picture.
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Hopefully I have managed to connect my Flickr account with this blog. And here is a progress picture on the shawl (any readers also on Ravelry can see what else I’ve been knitting lately – I’m busyknitter there as well)
