Jenny's Christmas Cake Recipe

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Jenny's Christmas Cake recipe

Category: Cakes

Jenny's Christmas Cake ingredients:

10	oz.	Whole-wheat flour
1 1/2	lb	Dried Mixed Fruit
4	oz.	Glace cherries
2	oz.	Chopped walnuts
2	oz.	Chopped almonds
2	tsp.	baking powder
		Nutmeg
1/2	tsp.	Salt
8	oz.	butter
5		Eggs (4-6)
3	tbsp.	molasses (2-4)
1		Grated rind of lemon
1		Grated rind of one orange
8	oz.	Demerara Sugar
		LOTS of ALCOHOL
		-about half bottle of rum or brandy or both
1/4	part	Guiness

Jenny's Christmas Cake preparation:

1. Mix the fruit and alcohol together and leave to soak for 3 days minimum.

2. Add cherries and nuts to mixture.

3. Mix flour, baking powder, spices and salt together.

4. Cream the butter, and sugar, when light and fluffy beat in molasses and then eggs one at a time.

5. Fold in half of the flour mixture followed by the fruit and alcohol mixture.

6. Then fold in the remainder of the flour.

7. Bake in lined tin wrapped in newspaper and secure tin with string.

8. Bake at Gas 3 for first two hours then reduce to Gas 2 for a further 90 minutes.

9. When cooked sprinkle cake with alcohol.

10. Keep wrapped in foil and every so often sprinkle with alcohol.

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