Comments on: Evidence based fruitcake

By: Kathryn Greenhill

Kathryn Greenhill — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 12:49:57 +0000

I think it would be interesting to do it as your recipe says and compare. It may be that the lower temp and greater liquid produces a more moist cake?

By: Teresa

Teresa — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 08:35:32 +0000

I have just soaked the fruit and choc milk from another recipe, which is similar to yours only difference is it says to cook on 150 and to add 700 mils choc milk, do you think I should add more flour than the recipe says which is 2 cups the same as yours.

Thanks

Teresa

By: Alan Wilson

Alan Wilson — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 01:15:49 +0000

Hi I cooked this and added Irish Wiskey about half a cup and reduced the choc milk by a bit to compensate. It was a big hit enjoyed by a room of critics .

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