Ingredients
1lb all purpose flour
2 eggs
1lb sugar
2 rounded (not heaped) teaspoons baking powder
2 cups mixed cake fruit (dried raisins, dried sultanas, zesty dried orange rind etc or just mix in your favourite dried fruity mix)
Quarter pound warm butter
Half cup milk
Half teaspoon nutmeg (yeah!)
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
Pinch salt
Preparation
Beat eggs and then add the milk and vanilla essence.
Rub the butter into the dry ingredients (flour, salt, baking powder & nutmeg). Do this with your hands, getting the butter all the way through the dry ingredients.
Add cake fruit and sugar (NB! reserve a couple of tablespoons of sugar for sprinkling on top!). Mix together well.
Break off pieces of dough and gently shape into cookies and place on greased baking tray. Sprinkle reserved sugar on top.
Bake for 10 minutes @ 400F until golden on the edges but still chewey in the center.
