English Christmas cake of My Sister Eunice

English Christmas cake of My Sister Eunice



Pasta:

Ingredients:

3 cups (tea) of wheat flour
2 cups (tea) brown or refined sugar (white)
1 cup (tea) of butter or cream, does not serve margarine
1 cup (tea) of milk or curd not cold
4-6 large eggs - egg whites
1 tablespoon (soup) full of chemical baking powder

"Spice or Spice"

1 teaspoon (tsp) ground cinnamon
1 pinch ground ginger
1 pinch ground cloves
1 tablespoon (soup) or lemon zest (orange) only the green part, do not put the bitter white part.

Fruits:

250 g. common seedless raisins
250 g. corintas of raisins (nightshade)
250 g. sultanas raisins (yellow)
250 g. candied fruit washed and finely chopped
250 g. of prunes stewed chopped without lumps
1 glass of brandy, rum or whiskey
"Sprinkle the fruit with wheat flour"
Way of preparing:

Beat sugar with butter, then add the yolks become a hit.

Add the milk, flour, spices, brandy, fruit sprinkled with flour not to sink in the dough, baking powder, and finally the egg whites.

Beat the firm whites with a pinch of salt.

Dump the heavy mass in the egg whites, gradually and slowly;

Form of pound cake, greased and dusted and over waxed paper also greased.

The shape can also be heart.

Place the dough in the form a little less than half the dough rises too much.
Moderate oven 160 ° or 170 ° C (the oven is moderate).

It takes about 1 1/2 hours down I form

After baked and cold, wrap with cellophane and tie a red ribbon and yellow or red balls, and a wheat branch.

It serves to give away at Christmas or on New Year's passage

Notice:

Can make minis to distribute cakes for the Christmas guests.

Place the cakes minis on the table.
Make each mini-cake, with different decoration.