Jenny’s Christmas Cake

JENNY'S CHRISTMAS CAKE

1 Preparation Time :

Categories : Cakes

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method -- -- --

10 oz Wholewheat flour

1 1/2 lb Dried Mixed Fruit

4 oz Glace Cherries

2 oz Chopped Walnuts

2 oz Chopped Almonds

2 ts Baking Powder

Nutmeg

1/2 ts Salt

8 oz Butter

5 Eggs (4-6)

3 tb Molasses (2-4)

1 lemon

1 Grated rind of

1 orange

8 oz Demerera Sugar

LOTS of ALCOHOL

-about half bottle of rum

-or brandy or both

1/4 pt Guiness

Mix the fruit and alcohol together and leave to soak

for 3 days minimum. Add cherries and nuts to mixture.

Mix flour, baking powder, spices and salt together.

Cream the butter, and sugar, when light and fluffy

beat in molasses and then eggs one at a time.

Fold in half of the flour mixture followed by the

fruit and alcohol mixture. Then fold in the remainder

of the flour. Bake in lined tin wrapped in newspaper

and secure tin with string. Bake at Gas 3 for first

2 for a further

minutes. When cooked sprinkle cake with alcohol. Keep

wrapped in foil and every so often sprinkle with

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