Christmas Cake Recipe Maggie Beer

When i was at home over christmas last year yes an age ago maggie beer made a pumpkin and pistachio cake on the cook and the chef episode 30 screened originally on 2 september 2009 that i could not get out of my head it just looked so good.

Christmas cake recipe maggie beer. Leave for 24 hours at room temperature turning the mixture once or twice to distribute the brandy evenly. This excellent recipe was published in the melbourne age in the lead up to christmas 2002. Sift the flour cinnamon nutmeg ginger mace and 1 teaspoon of salt into a large bowl then coarsely grate in the butter. Drain and reserve syrup.

Cover with clingfilm and leave to soak for three days. Maggie beer is a very well respected cook here in australia. Both my parents were great cooks but very little work was done on christmas day. I went to great lengths to find the recipe as the abc website referred to on the program no longer exists and made this cake at a time when i.

When i was a child in sydney our christmas lunch was casual but wonderful. I actually soaked the fruit in brandy for three weeks and topped the brandy up a few times which no doubt improved the flavour even more. Everyone s favourite food icon maggie beer shares her fondest christmas memories and top tips for christmas lunch. Become part of a wonderful community of discerning food lovers.

Dry roast 120 gram macadamia nuts and 60 gram almonds. Stir in the breadcrumbs and add the lemon zest apple. Reconstitute dried quandongs by soaking in 375 millilitres of verjuice and 50 grams caster sugar for 30 minutes then boil for 5 minutes. Rate this maggie beer s christmas cake recipe with 500 g sultanas 300 g currants 175 g seedless raisins 1 4 cup good quality bitter marmalade 150 g mixed peel 2 grated oranges zest of 120 ml brandy 300 g unbleached plain flour 1 2 tsp freshly grated nutmeg 1 2 tsp ground mixed.

Preheat the oven to 220 c and grease and line a 20 cm round spring form cake tin with baking paper. Combine the cumquats currants raisins sultanas and brandy in a large non reactive bowl and mix thoroughly. Turn off add currants leave to soften for 1 hour. Cover with plastic film and leave at room temperature for 24 hours stirring several times.

Put all the dried fruit and the orange zest into a large non reactive bowl and mix thoroughly then pour in the brandy and mix again. Get full maggie beer s christmas cake recipe ingredients how to directions calories and nutrition review. For the cake place all the dried fruit including the cherries into a large mixing bowl pour over the brandy and stir in the orange zest. It is a lovely moist rich fruit cake and everyone who tasted it loved it.

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