Mrs. Owens' Cook Book English Fruit Cake. ½ a cake of compressed yeast. 1 pint of flour; make a sponge. ½ a teaspoon of salt. ¾ pounds of currants. 1 cup of chopped raisins. 1 cup of sugar.

This is why traditional fruit cake recipes often require you to bake the cake slowly at a low temperature and to line the inside and outside of the tin with paper: a double thickness of parchment ...

For the 15cm/6in tier, cream the butter, sugar and vanilla together in a bowl until well combined. Gradually beat in the eggs, one at a time, until well combined. Stir in the dried fruit, orange ...

Recipes published ... desert known in English as a "charlotte." According to the Oxford Companion to Food, the original sharlotka was a take on apple charlotte — the fruit was layered in a ...

which creates a taste with “more moisture and a slightly denser cake” than most recipes will make. “Passion-fruit juice goes into the cream-cheese frosting for a fresh and naturally intense ...

Instead, it's a classic British dessert made of cake, custard ... (such is the case with our own holiday trifle recipe). If ...

Goldman recommends adding some fruit ... topping the cake with a simple streusel. Should you want to try that out, you can try the streusel that's part of this apple-oat muffin recipe.