As tasty cold as it is warm, perfect for the festive season. In a suitably sized sauce pan add the fruit, butter, sugar, spice, bicarb soda and water. Bring to the boil while stirring occasionally.

Depression cake, war cake, poverty fruitcake, bachelor’s cake, milkless, butterless, eggless cake, boiled cake, poor man’s cake — call it what you will, raisin cake’s time has come. Edmonds reader ...

In this week’s shared cookery column, JULIAN COLE averts a scandal as he introduces a recipe for boiled whisky cake. THERE have been more than enough scandals in journalism lately. So let’s get this ...

One of the most well-loved recipes on my blog, this fantastically moist, boiled orange chocolate cake is sweetened naturally with honey and has a delicate hint of citrus. I like to top it with a ...

June Borosky has a lot to be thankful for during this weekend of gratitude. The Simpson mother of six, grandmother of 11 and great-grandmother of seven battled breast cancer twice and won. She ...

Now is the perfect time to make your Christmas cake, so the flavours have a chance to mingle and mature. Be sure to douse it with a couple of tablespoons of warmed brandy every week and keep it well ...

Katy Salter meets the women giving the WI a thoroughly modern makeover, from meetings in pubs to burlesque evenings – although cake is never very far away... WI meetings have always involved food. For ...

You can now click/tap LISTEN to start the live stream. Thanks for logging in. Growing up in a family of active girls, who were galloping around on ponies, trying their hand at athletics and playing ...