In a suitably sized sauce pan add the fruit, butter, sugar, spice, bicarb soda and water. Bring to the boil while stirring occasionally. Once boiled remove from the heat and allow to cool. Once cooled ...

Simmer all ingredients in a large saucepan, when cool add 2 eggs and 1 and a half cups of self raising flour. Bake in 2 log tins or 20 centimetre square tin. Line base of cake tin with paper (greased) ...

Now is the perfect time to make your Christmas cake, so the flavours have a chance to mingle and mature. Be sure to douse it with a couple of tablespoons of warmed brandy every week and keep it well ...

In this week’s shared cookery column, JULIAN COLE averts a scandal as he introduces a recipe for boiled whisky cake. THERE have been more than enough scandals in journalism lately. So let’s get this ...

Depression cake, war cake, poverty fruitcake, bachelor’s cake, milkless, butterless, eggless cake, boiled cake, poor man’s cake — call it what you will, raisin cake’s time has come. Edmonds reader ...

There are many traditional recipes for a boiled orange cake and this is my version of the beautiful Middle Eastern-inspired cake: moist, rich and gluten-free. This does take a little longer to cook ...

From a sticky Swiss roll to a chicken pie that helped housewives through hard times, the Women’s Institute celebrates the centenary of its birth with a few of its finest recipes Cakes, which used ...