Old Fashioned Boiled Sultana (Raisin) Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

340 g sultanas
340 g flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
3 eggs
225 g caster sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
225 g butter
1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional) or 1/2 cup pecans (optional)

Preparation

In a pot, over the sultanas with water and boil for 7 minutes.
Drain the sultanas well, but keep them in the pot.
Add cubed butter and stir until the butter is melted.
In a bowl, beal the eggs and sugar until thick.
Add the flour, powder and vanilla.
Pour the fruit mix into the flour mix and fold to combine.
Bake in a greased and lined large sqaure cake tin.
Bake at 175oC for 1 1/2 hours, check after 1 1/4 minutes.
Do not ice/frost.
Serve warm with butter.