Old-Fashioned Sultana Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

500 g sultanas
250 g butter, chopped
3 eggs
2 teaspoons almond essence or 2 teaspoons vanilla essence
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder

Preparation

Preheat oven to 150\u00b0C and grease a 20cm square or round cake tin.
Pick over the sultanas to remove any stem- nothing worse than a crunch in your cake.
Place sultanas in a saucepan and cover them with cold water. Bring to the boil and then drain off the water. Return sultanas to saucepan.
Stir in the chopped butter and set aside the sultanas to cool.
Beat together the eggs, essence and sugar. Then add in the sultanas.
Add your flour and baking powder to another mixing bowl and aerate with a kitchen whisk (or you can sift them together).
Stir the flour into the sultana mix.
Pour into prepared cake tin and bake for 1 1/2 hours.