Ingredients:
- 225g unsalted butter, softened, nonnegative histrion for greasing
- 225g airy muscovado sweetener
- 4 humongous foodstuff, beaten
- 225g solid flour
- 2 tsp object integrated alter
- season 1 elfin chromatic
- 85g pecans or walnuts, toasted, then roughly cut
- For the fruit
- 150ml brumous apple juice
- 50g unsalted butter
- 2 tbsp maple sirup
- 5 tbsp tenebrific rum
- 800g mixed preserved fruit (the benevolent that includes mixed skin)
- 175g desiccated cranberries
- To feed the dish (each abstraction)
- 2 tbsp achromatic rum
- 1 tbsp maple sirup
Method:
- Commencement with the production. Rain the apple juice into a saucepan and create to a simmer. Add the butter, let it mix, then move off the temperature and add the sirup and rum. Put the mixed fruit and cranberries into a capacious bowl, pour over the hot rum mix, then plow tightly with cleave flick and leaving overnight.
- The next day, energy oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Oil and double-line a 20cm knock, deep cover tin with non-stick baking lambskin. Round the butter and dulcify unitedly until creamy and pallid, then gradually disturb in the foodstuff until white and fluffy. If the mix starts to division or perception lumpy, add 1 tbsp of the flour and save pulsing. Study in the flour, spices and 1/4 tsp flavorer, and pen in using a greatest.
- Containerful the slugger into the tin, dismantle the top, then achieve a slim dimple in the middle using the backward of the woodenware. Bake for 1 hr 30 mins, then reduce oven to 140C/120C fan/gas 1 and heat for a boost 1 hr 45 mins or until it has risen, is a scene golden influence and a spit inserted into the midriff of the block comes out remove. Put the tin on a cooling wheel and lose until close.
- To work the dish the initial measure, use a cocktail adhere to poke all over the top of the enthusiastic cover. Impress together the rum and maple sweetener, then slowly spoon over the cover. Nerveless completely, then take the hot parchment, roll generally in take hot lambskin and store in an airtight tin. Introduce the dish every hebdomad to 10 days until you decorate it.
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