BBC Homepage
Skip to content
Accessibility Help
Your account
Home
News
Sport
Earth
Reel
Worklife
Travel
Culture
Future
Music
TV
Weather
Sounds
More menu
More menu
Search BBC
Home
News
Sport
Earth
Reel
Worklife
Travel
Culture
Future
Music
TV
Weather
Sounds
Close menu
BBC Food
All Food
Home
Recipes
Budget Recipes
Chefs
Stories
Diets
Programmes
Techniques
My Food
More
Recipes by category
In Season
Occasions
Cuisines
Ingredients
Dishes
Collections
Collections
Easy chicken
Easy soups
Easy lunches
Quick dinners
Slow cooker
Air fryer
15-minute healthy
Everyday vegetarian
High protein
Low-carb
Popular recipes
Pancakes
American pancakes
Banana bread
Apple crumble
Cheesecake
Victoria sponge
Chocolate brownies
Chocolate cake
Flapjacks
Yorkshire pudding
Butternut squash soup
Cauliflower cheese
Cottage pie
Chilli con carne
Toad in the hole
Lasagne
Spaghetti bolognese
Spaghetti carbonara
Search
Ginger wine and whisky fruit cake
Tins, packets and jars
200g/7oz
plain flour
Cooking ingredients
300g/10½oz
raisins
150g/5½oz
currants
150g/5½oz
sultanas
200g/7oz dark
brown sugar
50g/1¾oz
ground almonds
1 tbsp finely chopped
stem ginger
1 tsp
mixed spice
2 tsp
ground ginger
Dairy, eggs and chilled
200g/7oz
butter
, plus extra for greasing
4 free-range
eggs
Other
200ml/7fl oz ginger 'wine' (preferably a non-alcoholic version, such as Glendale)
50ml/2fl oz
whisky
, plus extra for feeding the cake
Back to recipe
You might also like:
news
|
sport
|
weather
|
worklife
|
travel
|
future
|
culture
|
world
|
business
|
technology
