Gur Cake
This delicious treat can be made using stale bread and dried fruit.
10 people
60 minutes
20 minutes
Ingredients
- 0.5 tsp Baking Powder
- 8 slices Bread stale, crusts cut off and chopped up roughly
- 2 tbsp Butter melted
- 175 g Currants or mixed dried fruit
- 1 large Eggs beaten
- 4 tbsp Milk
- 2 tsp Mixed Spice
- 3 tbsp Plain Flour
- 350 g Shortcrust Pastry
- 0 - Sugar for sprinkling
- 100 g SuperValu Brown Sugar
- 1 cup Tea cold
Method
- Soak the bread in the tea for half an hour.
- Line the bottom of the tin with the pastry.
- In a bowl mix the tea soaked bread, flour, baking powder, mixed spice, sugar, butter, fruit, beaten egg and milk.
- Place on top of the pastry in the tin and top with another sheet of pastry and make a few scores with a knife.
- Cook in oven at 180 for 1 hour. Sprinkle with sugar, Cool and cut up to serve.
