Christmas fruit mince 1

Christmas fruit mince 1

250 g sultanas or raisins, washed and dried
250g currents, washed and dried
250g suet from which membranes have been removed
250g candied peel
250g raw cooking apples, peeled and cored then weighed
250g caster sugar
60g prunes, stoned (that means removing the pips and not drunk)
70g walnuts
2 teaspoons mixed spice
3 tablespoons brandy
2 tablespoons rum
Pinch of salt


Method:
Mix all the ingredients except the brandy and rum, pass through a coarse mincer.
Add the brandy and rum, mix and pack firmly into jars.
Seal as for jams



BOOK REVIEW

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Cheap banana time is banana recipe time

It is banana time and I was just looking through the "Granny Rosa" cookbook for Christine's Banana Bread Recipe.

CHRISTINE’S BANANA BREAD

Oops, we enjoyed the bread so much, we nearly forgot to photograph it.

• 75 ml/50 gr Butter

• 150 ml Sugar

• 2 Eggs

• 450 ml Flour

• 10 ml Baking Powder

• 1 ml Bicarb

• 1 ml Salt

• 250 ml Mashed Banana +/- 4 Bananas

• 5 ml Vanilla Essence

• 125 ml Coarsely Chopped Nuts (Optional)

METHOD

• Cream butter & sugar. Beat in the eggs one at a time.

• Sift together the dry ingredients & stir it alternately with the mashed banana into the butter mixture.

• Stir in the vanilla essence

• Bake for 1 hour in a medium oven @ 180 C.

• Allow to cool & store in an airtight tin.

• The bread is at its best after third day.

Here are links to other Internet kitchens for similar recipes

• The Huletts Kitchen has lots of cakes, cookies and sweet things on their website, including

Huletts banana bread

• They also have recipes for sweet-toothed diabetics and slimmers.

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• Simply Recipe Kitchen has a nice banana bread recipe as well as a recipe for Banana-nut Muffins

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Last but not least

• Here is Food Network's banana bread recipe

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