ALIDA’S FRUITCAKE
250 g white margarine
500 g fruit mix
250 g dates
500 ml yellow sugar
5 ml mixed spice
500 ml boiling water
2 eggs whisked
1000 ml cakeflour
10 ml bicarbonate of soda
125 ml milk
5 ml vanilla essence
2.5 ml salt
15 ml brandy
Add the first 6 ingredients and bring to a boil. Simmer for 10 minutes
Cool down completely
Add the next 7 ingredients in the order of the recipe above (do not revert the flour to grams!)
Pour into a prepared cake tin (lined with double lining brown paper and add a layer of brown paper on top)
Bake at 150ºC for 2-2.5 hours.
Recipe: Alida Siebert (Hospitality Training Center, Windhoek, Namibia)
