Guernsey Gache (A traditional fruit cake)

Ingredients

• •1lb 8oz wholemeal or plain white flour
• •8oz Guernsey butter
• •2 eggs
• •4oz candied orange peel
• •1lb sultanas (or currants if preferred)
• •quarter pint Guernsey milk
• •2oz yeast
• •pinch of salt
• •2oz dark brown sugar

Directions

1. 1Wash fruit & dry it.
2. 2Warm the milk.
3. 3Cream up the butter with sugar, add eggs then mix with the flour.
4. 4Add some yeast & a pinch of salt.
5. 5Make a depression in the dough and pour in the warm milk.
6. 6Add the rest of the yeast and fruit, mixing & kneading the dough.
7. 7Leave to rise in a warm room for two hours.
8. 8Knead again and grease a cake tin.
9. 9Tip in the gache and cook for one hour in a moderate oven until golden brown.