Eggless Fruit Cake - moderate oven?

Linda32

Hello all, I have a recipe for the above and it states moderate oven receipe is hand written from a food fair I went too, on the "dig for victory" stand.

8oz Flour
4oz Butter or veg. marg.
5oz Mixed dried fruit
4oz Sugar
½ teaspoon bi-carb
1 tablespoon vinegar
¼ pint milk

Rub butter into flour
Mix dry ingredients together
Add Bi-carb to milk
and then add vinegar
Mix all together

Bake 1½ hrs until form

"Moderate Oven"

I've added the receipe for others and also, so that you get the whole picture. I'm talking about a gas oven and fruit cakes are about gas mark 2, yet they go up to gas mark 9 so a moderate oven is about 5, to me a cake which take 1½ hrs would burn way before its cooked through.

Hope someone can guide me please.

Pink.

Hi Linda,

I think it's gas mark 3 or 4. This table should help:

Conversion chart for oven temperatures

Pink

thriftlady_2

Ooh, that looks like Norfolk Vinegar Cake. I used to make that a lot, it's good. Crumbly and short;) It is an old farm recipe made when the hens were off lay and became popular in the war when eggs were rationed.

A 'moderate oven' is Gas 4 or 180 C