Bishop’s
Bread (cake without butter)
Ingredients:
75 g
raisins
50 g candied lemon or orange peel, finely chopped
1 tblsp dark rum
250 g caster sugar
5 eggs
250 g plain flour
1 tsp mixed spice
2 tsp baking powder
1 pinch salt
50 g ground almonds
100 g plain chocolate, finely chopped
50 g candied lemon or orange peel, finely chopped
1 tblsp dark rum
250 g caster sugar
5 eggs
250 g plain flour
1 tsp mixed spice
2 tsp baking powder
1 pinch salt
50 g ground almonds
100 g plain chocolate, finely chopped
Method:
Line a cake
tin of about 30 cm with baking paper. Pre-heat oven to 180° C.
Marinate
the raisins and lemon peel in the rum.
In a large
bowl, mix eggs and sugar with an electric beater until pale and fluffy (about
five minutes).
Mix flour,
spice, baking powder and salt and sieve over the egg and sugar mixture. Add
almonds, chocolate, raisins and lemon peel and stir together.
Pour into
the prepared tin and bake for 55 to 60 minutes.
Wrapped in
foil this cake keeps for at least five days in the fridge. It is easier to cut
after one day.
It starts
to smell of Christmas in the kitchen......