Recipe - Jennys Christmas Cake

10 ounce Wholewheat flour
1 One half pound Dried Mixed Fruit
4 ounce Glace Cherries
2 ounce Chopped Walnuts
2 ounce Chopped Almonds
2 teaspoon Baking Powder
Nutmeg
One half teaspoon Salt
8 ounce Butter
5 Eggs (46)
3 tablespoon Molasses (24)
1 Grated rind of 1 lemon
1 Grated rind of 1 orange
8 ounce Demerera Sugar
LOTS of ALCOHOL
about half bottle of rum
or brandy or both
One fourth 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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