Nanna's Browns Christmas Cake

Nanna's Browns Christmas Cake


Ingredients

12 oz plain flour
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. mixed spice
½ tsp. salt
4 oz candied peel
4 oz cherries
2 lb. Dried fruit
4 oz blanched almonds
4 eggs
4 tbsp. sherry
Finely grated 1 lemon
8 oz margarine
8 oz sugar
1 tbsp. black treacle




Preparation Method

Sieve together all the dry ingredients.
Mix the peel, fruit, cherries, chopped almonds and lemon rind.
Whisk the eggs and sherry together.
Cream the margarine, sugar and black treacle until soft.
Add the flour and egg mixtures alternately to the margarine.
Stir in the fruit mixture.
Put into an 8-9 inch tin, lined with greaseproof paper round the sides and at the bottom. Tie a double band of brown paper round the outside of the rim, standing well up above the top of it.
Put in the middle of a hot oven. Bake for 31/4-31/2 hours at gas mark 3 for the first 11/2 hours, and then decrease to gas mark 2 for the remainder.