Help please with dried fruit and nuts

Miss_Kitty_Fantastico

After grabbing a bargain in Sainsburys i still have 1 1/2 tubs left of luxury dried fruit and nuts.

Can anyone help with a recipe - to allow me to use them up.

I'm not really a cereal person at the moment - or i would have just added them to muesli.

A cake recipe would be great if anyone has one.

Thanks in advance.

ChocClare

Any basic fruit cake recipe should work as long as you chop the fruit and nuts a bit first, I would have thought.

You could make chewy and crisp bars (like Trackers) by adapting a flapjack recipe - I have just suggested this on another thread so hasten to add that I am not in the employ of the Flapjack Council of Great Britain

You need: 250g porridge oats; 150g butter; 75g sugar; 75g golden syrup.

Combine butter sugar and syrup in a saucepan over a gentle heat and stir until melted. Stir in about 3/4 of the porridge oats. Now add in your fruit and nuts. You can add more porridge oats if the mixture seems sloppy or not bother if it is stiff. Pour into a baking tray lined with greaseproof paper and bake at Gas 4 for 25-30 minutes. Allow to cool for 5 minutes and then cut into "bars".

I always add nuts/seeds/chocolate to the basic flapjack recipe and my family then devour them with depressing speed and demand to know why there are no more to be had. Still, at least it's better for them than processed stuff...

Miss_Kitty_Fantastico

thanks chocclare i'll give that a try

squeaky

Lots of cake recipes here...

http://www.be-ro.co.uk/f_insp.htm

Click on the links on the right for a) cakes and b) Scones and Tea loaves

HTH

Miss_Kitty_Fantastico

thanks squeaky - i'll check that out

gdulka

I'd eat the whole lot on its own.... I love dried fruits, nuts etc!! but in flapjacks they'd be delicious too :j

melie3

hi all, ive got a bag of this value fruit, i was gonna make a fruit cake with it, my recipe is asking for 9 0z of raisins and sultanas, and 7 oz of currants. ive also about 150g of currants separate to use up, what do you think my cake would end up if i used what i got??? or should i just go get all the right ingredients? has anyone made a fruit cake with just the value fruit?? it also has mixed peel in it, i know if you buy all the separate ingredients its quite costly isnt it. where is the cheapest/best place to buy fruit?

thanks, hoping your all wrapped up warm today x melie

ironed_out

Yes just use the bag up that you've got. I've also got one of the same in my cupboard and keep promising hubby a fruit cake!

Job for the day added to my list

lessonlearned

Apparently if you soak the fruit for a while it helps "plump" it up, especially good for the value stuff which tends to be a bit smaller and somehow less "juicy" than the the more expensive brands. You could add just a small amount of sherry or port (about a tablespoon) to the soaking mix. This seems to make it a bit more luxurious.

I keep a bottle of fairly basic cheapo port which I add to loads of things - there's some in my beef stew which is simmering away in the slow cooker right now. It's much cheaper than using wine etc. You only need a bit so a bottle lasts for ages.

I tend to use sherry for sweet things, puddings cakes etc and port for stews, casseroles, gravies and sauces.

melie3

lessonlearned wrote: »

Apparently if you soak the fruit for a while it helps "plump" it up, especially good for the value stuff which tends to be a bit smaller and somehow less "juicy" than the the more expensive brands. You could add just a small amount of sherry or port (about a tablespoon) to the soaking mix. This seems to make it a bit more luxurious.

I keep a bottle of fairly basic cheapo port which I add to loads of things - there's some in my beef stew which is simmering away in the slow cooker right now. It's much cheaper than using wine etc. You only need a bit so a bottle lasts for ages.

I tend to use sherry for sweet things, puddings cakes etc and port for stews, casseroles, gravies and sauces.

hi, the fruit was gonna get a tablespoon or three lol of brandy ive got left over from xmas. now ran out of plain flour lol, and snowed in grrrrr lol... ok now can it be made with SR??

anyone got any ideas what i can use almost a whole bottle of gran manier on?? i tried to make a chocolate orange cake, but it didnt seem to have much orange flavour??? any ideas what i did wrong???

Patchwork_Quilt

Did you put some orange zest in the cake? Take the zest off and squeeze the juice of an orange to put in the cake

Drink the Gran Marnier? Save for emergencies? Use in a trifle? Use to take sticky labels off? Wait until next Xmas and set the pudding on fire with it. It will keep for ever