The Prudent Pensioner's VE Day Fruit Loaf recipe

As we prepare to celebrate the 75th anniversary of VE Day, The Prudent Pensioner (aka Doreen Reed) has shared this recipe - and you have time to bake it before Friday.

Doreen said: "When I have made and shared this cake I have had comments like lovely, yummy, even sensational.

"When I offered a friend the recipe her hubby said, ‘don’t bother with the recipe, just keep sending us cake."

Fruit Loaf

100g/ 3½ oz.Sultanas

100g/ 3½ oz.Raisins

75g/ 3 oz. Currants

150ml Strong Tea

225g S.R Flour

100g sugar

1 egg beaten

Approx.4 tbsps. Milk

A generous teaspoon of mixed peel

Put fruit in mixing bowl. Pour hot tea over fruit and leave to cool preferably overnight.

Pre heat oven to 190c/375f

Add mixed peel to fruit and stir well.

Sift flour in to fruit and mix in. Add sugar, then egg then sufficient milk to mix to a dropping consistency. Place in lined loaf tin and bake for 45 –50 mins.or until cooked. Test with a clean skewer which should come out clean. Place on wire rack to cool.