Eggless tea cake (literally- tea)

Another British recipe from WWII. I love that this one uses tea, although since it also uses wheat flour I'll never be eating it. I may try to find a way to substitute in for the wheat somehow. Kitchen experiment time.

Eggless Fruit Cake

• 1.5 cups self raising flour (or plain flour with 3 teaspoons of baking powder added)
• 1/4 tsp cinnamon
• 1/8 tsp nutmeg
• 1/4 tsp allspice
• 1/4 tsp ginger
• 1 level teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
• pinch salt
• 1/2 cup of black tea (cold)
• 5 Tbsp butter
• 5 Tbsp sugar
• 1/3 cup dried fruit

Method

1. Grease and flour a 7 inch cake tin or a large loaf tin
2. Mix the flour, salt, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder and spices together in a bowl
3. Pour the tea into a saucepan and add the sugar, butter and dried fruit
4. Heat until the butter and sugar melt and simmer for 2-3 minutes, stirring
5. Set aside to cool a little
6. Pour over flour mixture and beat well and spoon into cake tin
7. Bake in the centre of oven at 350 F/ 180 C for about an hour
8. Remove and leave to cool for a while before removing from tin