Everything-less fruit cake

I robbed Rose Elliot for this one

225gms (8 oz) cooking dates - not sugar rolled
275g (10 fl oz) water
450gms (1 lb) mixed dried fruit
175gms (6oz) besan (chick pea flour)
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon mixed spice
grated rind of 1 orange OR lemon
4 tablespoons orange juice
few flaked almonds for top

Set the oven to 160 C (325F) gas mark 3.
Grease a 900g (2lb) loaf tin and line with a strip of grease-proof
paper.
Put the dates and water into a saucepan and heat gently until dates
are soft, then remove from heat and mash to break up dates.
Put into a bowl then add dried fruit, besan, baking powder, spice,
grated rind and orange juice.
Spoon mixture into the tin, level top. Sprinkle with almonds and
bake for about 1 and ½ hours, until a skewer inserted into centre
comes out clean. Cool a little in tin, turn cake out and finish
cooling on a wire rack.

The whole cake is roughly 3000 calories. Not amazingly low but pretty good.
It does freeze though. Slice it first and pop one in your rucksack on the way out.