Suffolk baker takes fruit cakes to the next level

Relive the nostalgic joy of a proper, traditional bake with Grandpa's Cakes. By Charlotte Smith-Jarvis.

Grandpa’s fruit cake

I don’t remember a great deal about my husband’s grandmother. But there is this. Every weekend, without fail, and right up until she passed away, she would bake. 

Raised in a make-do-and-mend generation, against a background of frugality, she still considered baking a luxury…each cake designed to be furled up in foil, and nested in an…