Hi everyone, please help!
my grandmother used to make a ‘fruit cake’ every weekend when I was a kid, but it wasn’t a conventional fruit cake. She made it in a loaf tin, and I remember she added raisins, currants and sultanas, but she never left a recipe because it was all in her head (she worked in a bakery before she met my grandad).
I’m getting married next year and I would love to have this as my wedding cake, but I can not find anything that resembles it!
the closest I’ve tasted was a fruit cake when on holiday in Scotland, which makes sense as she grew up in Cumbria. I’ve found recipes for tea loaf but I don’t ever remember her soaking the fruit in tea.
she only added the fruit mentioned above, and once cooked it was a medium/heavy cake, but nowhere near as dense as traditional fruit cake, and it was a medium brown colour on the inside.
hopefully someone can help recommend some ideas!
I wish I had some great ideas for you but legends are near to impossible to recreate — I hope it works out for your wedding but treasuring and honoring the wonderful memory is just as vital —
here’s a little story — last weekend, my son, a classically trained chef who’s worked in fine dining across the country made my brownies for an event — made them exactly as written in a published recipe — the brownies he grew up on — and they did not at all turn out like mine —
That is so weird, -K8memphis. My sister and I have been trying to replicate my aunt's Tea Cakes, plain old soft vanilla cookies, for over 50 years, trying dozens of recipes, and have never come close.
although I have some encouraging news too — my pop made Wonderful peanut butter fudge — our nostalgic favorite as kids — but when I tried I either got pb soup or pb sand —
fast forward fifty years — I discovered the secret ingredient pop had successfully kept a secret till then was cream of tartar — I made perfect pb fudge for the first time in my life!
but remember this is One ingredient — making fudge is Nothing like copying cake a recipe — there are 10,000 possible variations between bakers and methods and I mean maybe she plumped up the fruit in some kind of juice, wine, booze — the possibilities are literally endless —
best to you
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