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Recipe by Mary Cadogan

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1. Heat oven to 150C/fan 130C/gas 2. Line the base and sides of a 1.5-litre loaf tin (a long thin one is best) with baking parchment. Mix the nuts and dried fruit thoroughly in a large bowl using your hands. Sift in the flour, spice and baking powder, then add the sugar and mix everything well. Beat the eggs with the vanilla, then add to the dry mix, turning everything together well until there is no dry mix visible.
2. Turn into the prepared tin and smooth the top. Bake for 1½-1¾ hrs, then cool in the tin for 15 mins. Turn out, peel off the paper and cool on a wire rack. Dust the top thickly with icing sugar, to serve.

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322 kcalories, protein 7g, carbohydrate 41g, fat 16 g, saturated fat 2g, fibre 3g, salt 0.15 g

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• Kelvin

  29 November 2007

  Kelvin rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Used currants instead of raisins, only because I don't like raisins. used half cherries and half pineapple and added some pecans which was nice. Delicious but beware easy to burn the top.

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  11 December 2007

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  I have made this log a couple of times ,it just doesn't last it so nice.I did mix pecans with the walnuts & added cranberries to the raisins

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  21 December 2007

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  I put more cherries than raisins. Really tasty. The only problem was slicing into thin slices like in the photoghraph. Will definitely make it again.

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• josie

  20 February 2008

  josie commented on this recipe

  I have tried this cake and believe,its wonderful. My only problem was that I could not cut out thin slices (same as seen on the picture) Must we have a special knife?

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  05 March 2008

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  Just like my mum used to do

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• WILLSY

  05 August 2008

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  I made this for my family as i don't like it myself and they loved it, it was hard to cut with a knife without ending up like doorsteps, but i tried a clean cheese board with a cheese wire attached and it was quite easy.

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Ingredients

• 200g walnuts halves
• 100g hazelnuts
• 50g blanched almonds
• 200g raisins
• 100g pitted dates , chopped
• 200g dried apricots , chopped
• 140g glacé cherries or pineapple
• 100g plain flour
• 2 tsp mixed spice
• ½ tsp baking powder
• 175g dark muscovado sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• icing sugar , for dusting

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Difficulty and servings

Cuts into 16 thin slices

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Prep 15 mins

Cook 1 hr min 1 hr 45 mins

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Ingredients

• 200g walnuts halves
• 100g hazelnuts
• 50g blanched almonds
• 200g raisins
• 100g pitted dates , chopped
• 200g dried apricots , chopped
• 140g glacé cherries or pineapple
• 100g plain flour
• 2 tsp mixed spice
• ½ tsp baking powder
• 175g dark muscovado sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• icing sugar , for dusting

Per serving

322 kcalories, protein 7g, carbohydrate 41g, fat 16 g, saturated fat 2g, fibre 3g, salt 0.15 g

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