Fruit Cake

Ingredients

500 gr flour
220 gr brown sugar
325 gr golden syrup
4 eggs
230 gr butter
210 gr currants
325 gr sultana raisins
95 gr candied orange peel
34 gr nut meats
14 gr baking powder
1 gr salt
120 ml fruit juice
3 gr cinnamon
2 gr allspice
10 gr ginger
1 gr nutmeg

Instructions

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