4 c Flour 4 tb Nut meats, chopped
1 c Brown sugar 3 ts Baking powder
1 c Golden syrup 1/4 ts Salt
4 Eggs 1/2 c Fruit juice
1 c Butter 1 ts Cinnamon
-or drippings 1 ts Cloves
1 lb Currants 1 ts Allspice
1 lb Sultana raisins 2 ts Ginger
1/2 lb Candied orange peel 1/2 ts Nutmeg
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
Yields
1 servings