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Cuts into 16 thin slices

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Ingredients

200g walnut halves

100g hazelnut

50g blanched almond

200g raisin

100g pitted date , chopped

200g dried apricot , chopped

140g glacé cherry or pineapple

100g plain flour

2 tsp mixed spice

½ tsp baking powder

175g dark muscovado sugar

3 eggs

1 tsp vanilla extract

icing sugar , for dusting

Method

Heat oven to 150C/fan 130C/gas 2. Line the base and sides of a 1.5-litre loaf tin (a long thin one is best) with baking parchment. Mix the nuts and dried fruit thoroughly in a large bowl using your hands. Sift in the flour, spice and baking powder, then add the sugar and mix everything well. Beat the eggs with the vanilla, then add to the dry mix, turning everything together well until there is no dry mix visible.

Turn into the prepared tin and smooth the top. Bake for 1½-1¾ hrs, then cool in the tin for 15 mins. Turn out, peel off the paper and cool on a wire rack. Dust the top thickly with icing sugar, to serve.