Chester Cake

I have a feeling that this recipe came from Aunty Dell.  It's a cake that is made from another plain cake that is a bit stale and needs to be used up.  The cake is cooked in a pastry case.  You can sometimes buy Chester Cake in the supermarket.

Pastry Ingredients:

• • 1 1/2 cups SR floour

  • pinch of salt

  • 2 tab sugar

  • 4 tab butter

  • 1 egg

  • 2 tab cold water

Method:

• 1. Put all the ingredients into the bowl of a food processor

  2. when the pastry comes together, stop processing

  3. halve the dough and roll it out to fit the base and top of a square cake tin.

Cake Ingredients:

• • 2 cups of cake, crumbled

  • 1/2 cup milk

  • 1 tab apricot jam

  • 1/2 cup sugar

  • 1 tsp mixed spice

  • 1/2 tsp nutmeg

  • 1 cup mixed fruit

  • 1 tab rum or madiera

Method:

• 1. soak the cake in the milk

  2. add the other ingredients and mix well

  3. if the mixture seems too wet, add a little SR flour

  4. pour onto the pastry base

  5. cover with the second layer of pastry

  6. bake in a moderate oven until the pastry is golden brown

  7. cool in the tin

  8. top with icing coloured with a little red food colouring

  9. cut into squares to serve.