Fruit cake-myrtle

1 servings

Ingredients

QuantityIngredient
4cupsFlour
1cupBrown sugar
1cupGolden syrup
4Eggs
1cupButter or drippings
1poundsCurrants
1poundsSultana raisins
½poundsCandied orange peel
4tablespoonsNut meats, chopped
3teaspoonsBaking powder
¼teaspoonSalt
½cupFruit juice
1teaspoonCinnamon
1teaspoonCloves
1teaspoonAllspice
2teaspoonsGinger
½teaspoonNutmeg

Directions

Directions: Sift together the flour, salt, spices and baking powder.

Cream the butter and gradually add the sugar, then add the eggs well beaten. Then add the syrup, fruit, nut meats,peel chopped fine, the fruit juice and the flour. Mix and turn into a papered cake tin and bake in a slow oven for 3 hours. This reciped was transcribed from my Grandma Dixon's handwritten recipe book used by her during the first quarter of this century.

Liz Parkinson