Erenie's Boiled Cake Recipe

Now you know who keeps us all going at 'Cerbid' . This is Erenie in the Quality Cottages big farmhouse kitchen. Every Monday she fills the office with the smell of home baking as she prepares our lunch and other goodies for the week.

Ingredients

1 pint of milk + 1 glass of sherry

½ lb margarine

½ lb brown sugar

½ teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

1 teaspoon mixed spice

2 teaspoons marmalade

2 packets raisins 1lb (500g) each

1 box cherries

3 eggs

1 lb SR flour

Method

Place milk, sherry, margarine, marmalade, sugar, fruit and bicarbonate of soda in a saucepan Bring to the boil

Allow to cool to blood heat

Add eggs, flour and spice

Place in a greased loaf tin

Bake for 10 minutes at 180 C

Turn oven down to 150 C

Bake for 1½ hours