Ingredients
Method
Preheat your oven to 150C/140C Fan / 300F and grease and line a 2lb loaf tin with baking/parchment paper.
Mix everything together
- Measure out all the ingredients (execpt the fruit) in turn and add them to a large mixing bowl or freestanding mixer.
- Weigh the flour into a small bowl then pout it into your mixing bowl.
- Do the same with the sugar.
- Add the baking powder.
- Add the butter. If it's not soft enough (we never remember to take ours out of the fridge in advance!) pop it in the microwave for a few seconds, just to make it easier to mix. Don't melt it.
- Crack the eggs into a small bowl before putting it in in the mixing bowl.
- Finally add the milk and mix everything together. You can use the k paddle of your free-standing mixer, a hand held mixer or just some wooden spoons to do this.
Add the mixed fruit
- Weigh the mixed fruit and add it to your bowl. Mix it in with wooden spoons or a spatula.
Bake the fruit loaf
- Pour the fruit loaf batter into your prepared loaf tin.
- Bake it in the oven for 1 hour – 1 hour 15 minutes. It's ready when a metal skewer, sharp knife or toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.
- If it starts to brown on top too much before it's fully baked, cover it the top with some tin foil.
- Remove the fruit loaf from the oven and leave it to cool in the tin before removing it from the tin and leaving it to cool completely on a wire rack.
- Serve and enjoy.