Jenny's christmas cake

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity	Measure	Ingredient
10	ounces	Wholewheat flour
1½	pounds	Dried Mixed Fruit
4	ounces	Glace Cherries
2	ounces	Chopped Walnuts
2	ounces	Chopped Almonds
2	teaspoons	Baking Powder
		Nutmeg
½	teaspoon	Salt
8	ounces	Butter
5		Eggs (4-6)
3	tablespoons	Molasses (2-4)
1		Grated rind of 1 lemon
1		Grated rind of 1 orange
8	ounces	Demerera Sugar
		LOTS of ALCOHOL about half bottle of rum or brandy or both
¼	pint	Guiness

Directions

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.