queensland cake
Queensland Cake Contributed to recipe goldmine.com by yeateg, Australia, 11/11/03 Source: "Queensland Cake Chef: An anonymous drover from Chinchilla Queensland. This is a rich frui...
Ingredients
- 1poundraisins
- 1poundcurrants
- 11/2 pounds sultanas
- 6ounceglace ginger, lightly chopped
- 1cupchopped pitted prunes
- 1cupchopped pitted dates
- 2tablespoontreacle (or golden syrup)
- 1cuprum
Directions
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Queensland Cake Contributed to recipe goldmine.com by yeateg, Australia, 11/11/03 Source: "Queensland Cake Chef: An anonymous drover from Ch
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This is a rich fruit cake recipe, from a drover at Chinchilla in Queensland (Australia)
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It was typical of the type of "special" do some drover's cooks could achieve when cooking for the men on a long cattle drive as a variation
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Another specialty was roast leg of mutton cooked with pineapple and ginger
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If you've ever tasted old scrawny mutton, you'd appreciate the transformation when it is cooked with tinned pineapple and ginger and basted
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But here is the Queensland fruit cake recipe, which I think is too good to file away under International Recipes, but deserves to be listed
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You won't need a camp oven to enjoy this drover's delight
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The use of ginger, Queensland nuts and Bundaberg rum make this the ultimate piece of Queensland cooking