It's getting tough out there. Feeling the pinch?

wort

Minus eight here and ice on spare room window inside and it’s double glazed. 

Katiehound

Frugalista said:

Katiehound said:

Frugalista said:

 

Would you post the recipe for this please - it sounds really nice.  Thanks in advance.

I'll post the link under here.

Without being disrespectful I call it it the Queen Consort cake- you'll see why
I use a large mug as the standard measure
This time I used half of raisins mentioned & substituted with glace cherries & walnuts- really you could use any fruit that you have.
Add sugar with flour
You only need half the quantity of sugar, or even less!
I also added mixed spice
I line my tin with a silicone tin liner- so easy!

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/good-housekeeping-uk/20170501/285808603288724

So how long do you cook it in the slow cooker? and what size is your slow cooker?  Sorry to be a pain!!

Right I have the really large sc- big oval- about 6 litres?
I put the mixture in a 2lb loaf tin, with about 1-2 " of water in the sc. 3.5 hours on high.
 However if you have the medium sized sc I think you could could cook it directly in the ceramic on high for a much shorter time.
Cotton teacloth under lid to collect condensation.

Lots of hints on cooking cakes in sc on this website, I used it a lot!! :
https://bakingqueen74.co.uk/how-to-make-a-cake-in-a-slow-cooker/#what-size-slow-cooker-do-i-need-to-make-a-cake

Frugalista

Thank you!  I have the big oval - and a 2lb loaf tin, so I'm good to go!!

Katiehound

Frugalista said:

Thank you!  I have the big oval - and a 2lb loaf tin, so I'm good to go!!

Just check the cooking times, mine is certainly 3.5 hours, but yours might be a tad more or less- and on high

Hope yours turns out well. Mine was slightly dipped in the middle- tastes great 'though!

happydenial

Thanks @Katiehound - I’m definitely going to try this in the slow cooker for Christmas. My mum loves fruit cake, but absolutely loathes mixed peel which makes it interesting trying to buy one! I’ll sub it with more sultanas/raisins 🤞

Katiehound

happydenial said:

Thanks @Katiehound - I’m definitely going to try this in the slow cooker for Christmas. My mum loves fruit cake, but absolutely loathes mixed peel which makes it interesting trying to buy one! I’ll sub it with more sultanas/raisins 🤞

or you could use a seasonal mix with cranberries, or glace cherries, or walnuts or almonds.. It's a very forgiving recipe. 
This time I used some ginger & cinnamon. bet you could use zest of an orange... limited only by your imagination!

Even if you have non stick tin I would line with baking parchment or silicone liner- just lift out

check out the baking queen link for extra advice after all this is only the second cake I have made in sc!

Woolsery

wort said:

Minus eight here and ice on spare room window inside and it’s double glazed. 

They're not listening; too busy cooking!!

You have my sympathies. It's -6c here in Devon, but little wind, so the wood burner is doing the whole house at present.

Looks like it will all be over by Sunday. It will be positively tropical here according to the Met Office. (13c)

Longwalker

London_1 said:

When I was a little girl we would travel up to Glasgow to one of my aunts and I would sleep in the tiny 'hole in the wall' bed that was in the kitchen next to the range, and was always toasty and warm.
 It was like a small bunk bed built into the wall of the kitchen and I would drift off to sleep listening to my Mum and Aunt chatting away in the kitchen There was a small pair of curtains that were closed when I was put to bed and it was a fabulous place to sleep in the cold winter time, wrapped in my winceyette PJs.:) and a tiny hot water bottle on my feet.the matrees was a feather one and there were a couple of thick tartan blankets tucked around me as well I was never cold when I slept there

My Great Aunt Pat, the one I got my thriftiness from, had a huge feather bed. Proper wrought iron bedstead and this huge feather mattress then just enveloped you. And on top the biggest eiderdown and then the candlewick bedspread.

I used to sleep in it with her when we stayed in the holiday, little sister on a camp bed. Pat had a two up, two down in Kingston, one of the richest boroughs in London, yet she lived all her life there with an outside loo, the bath under a worktop in the kitchen, just a cold tap and no central heating. She died in the early 90's and the house was worth a small fortune but for her it was her home, where she had lived all her married life and long widow hood. I loved that house as well, full of love and warmth

I remember one time during the holidays my teacher and her boyfriend took me out for the day to the seaside. They had this huge inner tube and I spent hours out in the sea bobbing around in it. I still remember going back to Pats and falling asleep in that huge marshmallow of a mattress feeling like I was still bobbing about

Very happy memories 

flipflopflo

Longwalker said:

London_1 said:

When I was a little girl we would travel up to Glasgow to one of my aunts and I would sleep in the tiny 'hole in the wall' bed that was in the kitchen next to the range, and was always toasty and warm.
 It was like a small bunk bed built into the wall of the kitchen and I would drift off to sleep listening to my Mum and Aunt chatting away in the kitchen There was a small pair of curtains that were closed when I was put to bed and it was a fabulous place to sleep in the cold winter time, wrapped in my winceyette PJs.:) and a tiny hot water bottle on my feet.the matrees was a feather one and there were a couple of thick tartan blankets tucked around me as well I was never cold when I slept there

My Great Aunt Pat, the one I got my thriftiness from, had a huge feather bed. Proper wrought iron bedstead and this huge feather mattress then just enveloped you. And on top the biggest eiderdown and then the candlewick bedspread.

I used to sleep in it with her when we stayed in the holiday, little sister on a camp bed. Pat had a two up, two down in Kingston, one of the richest boroughs in London, yet she lived all her life there with an outside loo, the bath under a worktop in the kitchen, just a cold tap and no central heating. She died in the early 90's and the house was worth a small fortune but for her it was her home, where she had lived all her married life and long widow hood. I loved that house as well, full of love and warmth

I remember one time during the holidays my teacher and her boyfriend took me out for the day to the seaside. They had this huge inner tube and I spent hours out in the sea bobbing around in it. I still remember going back to Pats and falling asleep in that huge marshmallow of a mattress feeling like I was still bobbing about

Very happy memories 

My grandparents had a bed like that when we were growing up in what was called the kids room. My brother and I would share it when we stayed there. It had great heavy feather pillows and an eiderdown that my great, great grandmother had made (I have her treadle sewing machine). We also had fabulous really thick silky Egyptian cotton sheets ( my mum, aunt and I have some each) and there was a candlewick bed spread all on top of this wonderful feather mattress. The bed was right next to the chimney breast and along side our hot water bottles it kept us cozy. My granddad would be up at the crack of dawn to re-lay the fire and light it so we were warm when we woke up. 

I remember as we got older we were moved to top to tail and then my brother was moved to a z-bed and I used to have that wonderful bed to myself. 

wort

My Great Aunt Pat, the one I got my thriftiness from, had a huge feather bed. Proper wrought iron bedstead and this huge feather mattress then just enveloped you. And on top the biggest eiderdown and then the candlewick bedspread.
This sounds like my bed😍very high I have to spring up onto it. It has a thick mattress the a thick feather topper, a 13.5 feather duvet and feather pillows , so cosy .