Comments on: Evidence based fruitcake

By: Deborah Fitchett

Deborah Fitchett — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:34:53 +0000

A year late in replying to your question but yes, there was much astonishment at how short the list of ingredients was; they wouldn’t believe me the first two or three times. I must make this again this year.

By: Sheryl Gibson

Sheryl Gibson — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 06:03:08 +0000

Hi,
I tried it and also halved the mixture and put it in a date loaf tin. It was very morish (not sure if I spelt that right) and going to have it for christmas day with custard and cream.

By: Kathryn Greenhill

Kathryn Greenhill — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:14:20 +0000

Thank you Joan. Great to hear that it turned out well – I’m waiting for the comment that says “I tried this and it was yukky. You have rocks in your head” – because it just.should.not.work.

By: Joan

Joan — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:55:34 +0000

I tried this recipe. I halved it also but lowered the temperature. Next time I will try adding some mixed spice and some rum. It was very nice and low fat.

By: Kathryn Greenhill

Kathryn Greenhill — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:04:19 +0000

Ah. We seem to be building a nice body of evidence here. Did you colleagues email you back to tell you that you had surely left out three or four ingredients?

By: Deborah Fitchett

Deborah Fitchett — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:48:14 +0000

I bought chocolate milk on the way home last night and then discovered that what I’d thought was mixed fruit in the pantry was actually sultanas. So I soaked the sultanas in the milk overnight, mixed the flour in first thing this morning, and brought the cake to work.

Yes, I get up ridiculously early compared to when I leave for work. But also I only made a half-mixture so it cooked more quickly – in fact I should have had it lower heat because the edges went a bit black. Even so, it was very nice hot for breakfast (fruit, milk and flour – what could be healthier?) and my colleagues have made me repeat the recipe a few times plus email it to them, so I’d call it a definite success.

By: Kathryn Greenhill

Kathryn Greenhill — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:56:37 +0000

Ah, two testing labs

Jo, you could actually do some very interesting things with adding various bits and pieces to the fruit/liquid brew – endless variations. I guess you could also sieve all sorts of spices in with the flour too.

Andrew I would guess that the choc soy milk proteins would behave differently to the casein in milk – whether this is a problem I don’t know … let me know when you find out

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:35:16 +0000

Do you suppose it would work with chocolate flavoured soy milk?

By: jo

jo — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:09:09 +0000

Kathryn, I am so not a cook, but I have used a version of this recipe with coffee replacing the milk. It has to be good quality plunger/drip(I use Zentvelds Coffee) etc, with choc chips an added extra if desired!