Instructions

1. Pre-heat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas Mark 4. Grease an 8inch/20cm deep cake tin and line the base of the tin with some baking parchment.
2. Put the butter sugar, mixed dried fruit and candied peel in a saucepan with the cold tea and bring to the boil. Remove from the heat and allow to cool down
3. Add the lightly beaten egg to the fruit mixture Sieve the flour, mixed spice and bread soda together and fold into the mixture
4. If you are putting in a ring, coin, rag, pea etc, wrap it in tin foil or baking parchment and mix it into the cake mixture at this stage.
5. Pour the mixture into the prepared tin. Place in the pre-heated oven and bake for 1 ½ hours. Cool in the tin and then turn the cake out of the tin
6. If desired you can brush the cake with some boiled apricot jam at this stage. Place on a serving plate and slice. Serve warm with some butter.