Old Fashioned Boiled Sultana Cake Recipes

OLD FASHIONED BOILED SULTANA CAKE

Steps:

• Place butter, sultana's, sugar and water in saucepan, bring to the boil, cover and let simmer for 3 minutes.
• Allow to cool.
• Add the eggs one at a time, then sifted flours and baking powder.
• Mix, pour into a lined 7" x 8" (18 x 20cm) square tin.
• Bake at 180 celcius or until a skewer comes out clean.

OLD-FASHIONED SULTANA CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 150°C and grease a 20cm square or round cake tin.
• Pick over the sultanas to remove any stem- nothing worse than a crunch in your cake.
• Place sultanas in a saucepan and cover them with cold water. Bring to the boil and then drain off the water. Return sultanas to saucepan.
• Stir in the chopped butter and set aside the sultanas to cool.
• Beat together the eggs, essence and sugar. Then add in the sultanas.
• Add your flour and baking powder to another mixing bowl and aerate with a kitchen whisk (or you can sift them together).
• Stir the flour into the sultana mix.
• Pour into prepared cake tin and bake for 1 1/2 hours.

OLD FASHIONED BOILED SULTANA (RAISIN) CAKE

Steps:

• In a pot, over the sultanas with water and boil for 7 minutes.
• Drain the sultanas well, but keep them in the pot.
• Add cubed butter and stir until the butter is melted.
• In a bowl, beal the eggs and sugar until thick.
• Add the flour, powder and vanilla.
• Pour the fruit mix into the flour mix and fold to combine.
• Bake in a greased and lined large sqaure cake tin.
• Bake at 175oC for 1 1/2 hours, check after 1 1/4 minutes.
• Do not ice/frost.
• Serve warm with butter.