Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

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 Grated rind of 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 two
hours then reduce to Gas 2 for a further 90 minutes. When cooked
sprinkle cake with alcohol. Keep wrapped in foil and every so often
sprinkle with alcohol.

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