Lowney’s – Raised Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• 4 cups flour (480g)
• 1 cup butter (227g)
• 1¼ cups sugar (approx. 250g)
• ½ cup milk (120ml)
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ½ yeast cake dissolved in one half cup water (approx. 10g dried active yeast)
• 2 eggs
• ¼ cup wine (60ml)
• 2 cups seeded raisins (approx. 320g)
• 1 cup citron (approx. 200g candied fruit)

Method

1. Mix all ingredients except eggs and fruit.
2. Raise over night. In the morning add eggs and fruit; cover and raise again; pour into buttered and papered pans; let it rise one hour.
3. Bake in moderate oven one and one half to two hours.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard