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Nell's Irish Boiled Cake
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Barbara Bratcher
"Great tasting and easy. This is similar to a fruitcake."
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Ingredients
1 h 15 m servings 251Original recipe yields 12 servings (1 - 8x4 inch loaf pan)
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- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees). Grease an 8x4 inch loaf pan.
- In a medium bowl, stir together the whole wheat flour, all purpose flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Add the boiled ingredients along with the cooking sherry, mix until well blended. Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
- Bake for 45 minutes in the preheated oven, then reduce the oven temperature to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C) and bake 15 more minutes, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
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8/9/2004
Very easy indeed, and very good too - moist but crumbly. It is a fruit cake as we know them in Ireland and the UK; however I think it's a bit too sweet - a common failing in recipes adapted to t...
4/3/2001
This must be the real thing! Served 6 of these cakes at a function at the Irish American Heritage Center in Chicago, - we had to put the crumbs out because everybody was clamoring for more!
10/13/2007
So many recipes for Irish boiled cakes. I refer to use white flour rather than whole wheat. The latter tends to make it dry and certainly cut back on the sugar a little. Still a pretty good li...