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War Cakes

I'm sure the warm, delicious smell of these little, spicy cakes permeating through the house would have cheered up my mum and her sister during those dark times as well as the years afterwards of strict rationing.

Course afternoon tea
Cuisine British
Keyword cakes, dried fruits, spicy, war

Ingredients

  • 220g SR Flour
  • 110g unsalted butter
  • 110g caster sugar
  • 1 teaspoon mixed spice
  • ¼ teaspoon fine salt
  • 220g mixed dried fruit
  • ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
  • 70ml milk, or enough to mix

Instructions

  1. Collect together your equipment (see Recipe Notes below) and ingredient

  2. Preheat oven to Fan Oven 150°C/170°C/325°F/Gas 3

  3. Measure the flour and butter into a mixing bow and rub the fat into the flour with your fingertips until it looks like fine breadcrumbs.

  4. Add the sugar, mixed spice, salt and dried fruit. Stir to mix.

  5. Stir the milk and the bicarbonate of soda together and addto the cake mix. Stir to mix with a spoon.

  6. Divide into 18 small paper cases and cook in the centre of the oven for 25 - 30 minutes. Delicous, either warm or at room temperature, with a cup of tea

Recipe Notes

Equipment:

  • mixing bowl
  • kitchen scales and measuring spoons
  • small jug or mixing bowl
  • fairy cake tins lined with 18 paper cases