Last weekend we got a taxi home from Cork city and after my few glasses of Sticks pinot noir ( really a nice wine) I was hanging over the passenger seat quizzing the taxi driver on his favourite food. What does he love to eat? I just had to know. Anyway he told us that his friend regularly gives him two rabbits and he ‘sticks ’em in a stew and bubbles ’em away with a few carrots and onions and two hours later tis handsome‘.
8ozs sultanas
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Cover the stale bread with cold tea( I made a pot using 2 normal teabags and 1 chai teabag) and leave to soak for an hour. Squeeze dry by pressing mixture in a sieve over the sink.
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Sift the flour with the baking powder, add the sugar, then rub in the butter add spice mix.
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Add sultanas to well squeezed bread and mix well, turn into flour mixture and mix together well.
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Add the well beaten egg in the milk and stir, then add the marmalade and leave aside
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Roll out one portion of pastry to fit a baking tin(10,12,2) grease well, make sure to prick pastry with fork evenly on top and bottom.
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6. Spread mixture evenly over pastry.
7. Cover with second portion of pastry.
8. Pinch the side together to seal it. prick the top with a fork.
9. Bake in oven @ 180 for 1 hour 45 mins.
10. Leave cake in tin to cool. Then ice with thick water icing and cut into slices once set.
This recipe really does make a massive amount of cake but it does freeze well!
Lilly x
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