Favourite Christmas Recipes

Christmas Cake

Ingredients:

8oz stoned rasins
8oz sultanas
8oz currants
4oz chopped mixed peel
4oz ground almonds
4oz glace cherries - quartered
8oz plain flour
1 level teaspoon mixed spice
pinch salt
8oz butter
6oz soft light brown sugar
4 large eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons brandy

Putting it together:

Cream butter and sugar. Beat in the eggs. Fold in the dry ingredients, adding the fruit and brandy last.

Bake in an 8 inch tin. Bake in the lower part of the oven at 300F for 3 1/2 hours.