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Saturday 20 June 2009

Can we stay ourselves one day

Garden at Royal Cottage Mundesley
Back garden at Royal Cottage Mundesley
One day it might be nice to stay here ourselves and just relax - rather than just getting it ready for the next guests! We do manage a few weekends here ourselves in the low season but we are usually doing maintenance and improvements with not a lot of time to just sit and relax.

Thursday 11 June 2009

A Fruit Cake to Die for


Visitors are often asking for the recipe to my fruit cake in the Welcome Pack so here goes...

Makes two large loaf tins or 4 smaller ones. I use organic ingredients where possible.

  • 6 oz butter
  • 1 large tin pineapple
  • 12 oz self raising wholemeal flour
  • 8 oz brown sugar
  • 18 oz Dried Mixed Fruit
  • 3 eggs

Melt the butter and sugar in a saucepan. Pour the juice from the pineapple into a large mixing bowl with the dried fruit. Liquidise/blend the pineapple and add to the fruit. Pour in the sugar and butter, beat in the eggs and stir in the flour. Grease 2 x 2lb loaf tins, cook at 160 degrees for 50 mins to 1 hour or until it comes away from the side and cracks on top.

Enjoy!