Recipe - Derbyshire Oatcakes

1 pound Mixed dried fruit
8 ounce Sugar
One half pt Hot tea
1 Egg
1 pound Selfraising flour
One half teaspoon Mixed spice
One half teaspoon Grated nutmeg
2 tablespoon Marmalade

Pour the hot tea over the dried fruit and sugar, leave to soak overnight.
Next day, heat the oven to 300oF Mark 2. Grease and line a 7 inch cake tin
or two 1 pound loaf tins. Stir the egg, flour, spices and marmalade into the
fruit, sugar and tea mixture. Pour into the tin or tins and bake for 1 1/2
~ 2 hours, until firm to the touch and a skewer pushed into the cake
comes out clean. DO NOT OPEN THE OVEN DURING THE FIRST HOUR OF BAKING TIME
!!! This cake will keep well.

Source: Favourite Peak District Recipes ISBN 1 898435 17 0
Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #478 by Paul Charlesworth
pcharles@iastate.edu on Feb 9, 1997.