THE BEST NO-BAKE VEGAN FRUIT RICH CHRISTMAS CAKE EVER

Rich fruit Christmas cake as we know it today started life In the middle ages, In England a day of fasting was part of religious worship and to line the stomach after the fast, in the bitter cold of winter, plum porridge or pottage was the traditional food eaten. The pottage or porridge was a kind of broth made in large batches and included raisins and other dried fruit, spices and wine and meat or at least meat stock and it was thickened with breadcrumbs, oats or ground almonds.

During the 16^th century more expensive ingredients were added to the pottage instead of oats flour, butter and eggs were used. Eventually with the advent of ovens the mixture changed to become baked rather than boiled and other dried fruit was added.   Because the cake had such keeping qualities bakers would make them a year In advance.

The cake was originally eaten at Easter then evolved to be known as the Twelfth Night cake when seasonal dried fruit and spices, which were symbolic, the spices bought by the Magi, were added. It was consumed on 5^th January, the last day of the festivities.

The first time Christmas cake was eaten on Christmas day was during the Victorian era in 1830’s. and the bakers would decorate them with winter snow scenes. They became very popular for Christmas parties and
by the 1870’s the traditional Christmas cake was the same as we know it today.

I’m sure you’ll recognise that no bake Christmas cake contains the same type of ingredients, but instead of cooking it we can benefit from it’s full nutritional content by eating the ingredients uncooked.

Just as traditional Christmas cake is covered in marzipan and icing, this none baked Christmas cake will receive the same treatment and can be iced using xylitol.

 

 

 

This is such  a wonderful cake. Below are the recipe cards I used in the video.

 

I've also added extra special ingredients not shown in the film, but which I added to the mixture to give it an even more delicious taste.

 

 

 

 

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Don't forget the Vegan Block.  I never cook anything without it.  It makes everything taste amazing!

 

 

If you can afford to buy organic food then do. Not only is it better for your body because you avoid eating pesticides but it is kinder to the environment and allows for greater biodiversity on our planet.

Share with me the pictures of the cakes you make, and let me know what you think to the flavour.

Healthy Greener Options for Sustainability

Covid19 has given us all time to reflect on our lives and how we can improve them.

Why should we consider becoming healither or greener at all?

The answer to that question is really simple.  We (I'm referring to the human race) have destroyed so much of our natural world through our greed. We haven't stopped in our rush to own everything. Conglomorates, commerce leaders, world banks, certain world leaders and individuals, you and me, have trampled down anything and everything in the pursuit of power, wealth and greed and possessions. But there will be a price to pay. There already has. Covid19 is just one example, and look at the devastation that has brought in it's wake..

What are the main culprits that affect the upset to our ecology?

The Aral Sea in 2000 on the left and 2014 on the right. Photograph: Atlas Photo Archive/NASA W

Intensive farming, destruction of the Rain Forest, water pollution to make way for thousands upon thousands of cattle. Our love of buying cheap clothing every season, has caused a sea to almost disapper because of intensive cotton farming, cotton is a very thirsty plant, and the sheer numbers of plants that have been grown to appease our desire for clothing has left communities destroyed.  The Aral Sea basin in Central Asia has completely dried up and the exposure of the dried basin has released salts and pestisides have been blown into the communities poisoning farmland and people with carcinogenics. Do communites deserve to lose their lives and livlihoods because of our greed?

I could go on and on. But what it boils down to is our individual actions, matter. how far we will go in pursuit of 'having everthing'at the expense of destroying everything.  Do we ever consider the environmental impact, our carbon foot print has, on the things we buy or consume?

We have been offered meat and other foods at the cheapest prices, irrespective of the fact that cattle rearing uses the largest carbon footprint of any farming method, and feeds the fewest people. Clearing mountains of waste produced by these emormous ranches and farms poison  local communities as toxins seep in to soil and water systems. And then to top it all is the need for acres of arable farming required to produce animal feed. The world has lost so many species that help to balance nature because of production of soya crops for cattle feed. We've lost varieties of plants and wildlife that helps to keep equlibrium of nature in check.

Will we continue, once Covid19 is over to consume in the same way we've done in the past? Or will we look to making changes, even if those changes may be slightly more expensive, but have a greater healing impact for our world at large?

Strides are being made in production of items from greener sources that will benefit all of us. Making positive changes oursleves can help us to combat the destruction that lies in wait for our future generarions.