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CHRISTMAS CAKE

1/2 lb butter softened
1/2 lb dark brown sugar
1 tbls black treacle
4 eggs beaten
10 oz flour
2 tsp ground mixed spice
1/2 pound seedless raisens
4 oz currants
1/2 lb sultanas
4oz glace cherrys chopped
3 tbls undiluted orange squash

Greas 9" round cake tin and line with greaseproof paper, mix butter and sugar till light and fluffy, then beat in the treacle. Beat the eggs in a little at a time. Sift the flour and spices together, keep a tbls seperate and fold the rest into the mixture. Put the fruit into a bowl with the reserved flour and spices,toss around so the fruit isnt stuck together, stir into the mixture with the orange juice. Put into cake tin Bake at 160c/ 325 f or gas mark 3 for one hour then reduce the heat to 150c/300f or gas mk 2 and bake for a further 2 hours. When done and cold wrap in tin foil in an air tight tin. Feed in mid Nov with a thimble full of sherry, then again at end of Nov. Then end of first week Dec. Marzipan and Ice about the week before xmas.