Cooking Times

45 min
Prep Time
180 min
Cook Time
225 min
Total Time

Ingredients (10 items)

4.00 cups All-purpose flour
divided
2.00 cups Raisins
2.00 cups Currants
1.00 cup Brown sugar
0.75 cup Butter
cold
3.00 Eggs
0.50 cup Whisky
2.00 tbsp Mixed spice
1.00 tsp Baking powder
0.50 cup Almonds
chopped

Instructions (9 steps)

1
Make pastry: rub 0.5 cup butter into 2 cups flour with pinch salt.
2
Add water to form dough, refrigerate 30 minutes.
30 minutes
3
Mix remaining flour, raisins, currants, sugar, spices, almonds.
4
Beat 2 eggs with whisky, mix into fruit mixture.
5
Roll 3/4 pastry to line greased 8-inch cake tin.
6
Pack fruit mixture into pastry-lined tin.
7
Cover with remaining pastry, seal edges, prick top.
8
Brush with beaten egg, bake 3 hours at 300°F.
180 minutes
9
Cool completely. Best after aging 1 week. Slice thin.