12 oz mixed dried fruit soaked overnight in I mug tea plus 2 tbs Madeira wine and 2 tsp mixed spice.
6oz white SR flour and 2 oz wholemeal flour
4oz butter
3oz muscavado sugar (or 2oz if you like it a bit less sweet)
3 eggs beaten
10 pecans broken into pieces
Melt the butter and sugar together and when cool add soaked fruit and surplus liquid. Mix and add the beaten eggs and then the flour and pecans and mix well.
Put into a traybake tin 10x8in.
Bake at gas 3 for 45 min.
To soak the fruit you could use tea, fruit juice, sherry, port etc instead of Madeira wine
