1KG bag of dried fruit!?

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Hello, does anyone have any idea as to what I can do with a 1KG bag of dried fruit? I don't want to waste it but have no clue how to use it up! Any ideas/recipes? Thank you

Christmas cake!

Christmas cake!

Fruitcake
Mincemeat
Christmas chutney

Make your own mince meat

Mincemeat
Christmas pudding
Fruity sponge or suet puddings
Rock cakes
Fruit cakes such as Genoa cake.

Tagine?

Bread & butter pudding
Bread pudding
Fruit scones

Hot cross buns!

Make a tea loaf, one of the easiest recipes you will ever do, soak the fruit over night in black tea, any tea you like will be fine. Self raising flour, sugar & one egg. Fat free recipe and smells wonderful when baking.

Christmas cake
Barabrith
Tea loaf
Chelsea buns

A lot of rocky road

Raisins and Christmas cake spices in a bottle of rum to steep. Filter the rum off for lovely Christmas flavoured drinking. Rinse the raisins quickly and then stir them in to some homemade fudge.

Easy Christmas gift too.

Firstly, store it in an airtight container. Dry fruit does not go bad easily.
Eat a handful as a snack
Used crushed nuts or a handful of dried fruit in porridge.

Manor House cake

I'd snack on it, probably. What kind? How hard?

This cake is so easy and delicious, it has the texture of a brownie but with fruit and brown sugar.

150g margarine
200g soft brown sugar
200g dried fruit
150g self raising flour
50g oats
1 tsp baking powder
1 egg

1. Melt margarine & sugar in saucepan
2. Stir in dry ingredients
3. Add beaten egg
4. Put into greased tin (or I use one of the silicone tins)
5. Bake for 20-25 minutes 180ºc, gas 4
6. Cut into squares when cooled

What kind of dried fruit?
We mainly snack on it, or bake with it here.
It will last for ages if sealed.

Will last for a long time so no rush to use them up. Mincemeat and fruitcake spring to mind but also soak in rum and serve with vanilla icecream-- like the 1970s flavour rum n raisin

Bara brith.