Sunday, December 8, 2019

Modern Christmas Cake

1&1/2 cups whole shelled brazil nuts
1&1/2 cups walnut halves
1/2 lb. stoned dates
2/3 cup candied peel
1/2 cup red cherries
1/2 cup green cherries
1/2 cup se[e]ded raisins
3/4 cup S R flour
3/4 cup sugar
pinch salt
3 eggs
1 teas. vanilla essence.

Method: Place all fruit & nuts (unchopped) in a large basin and mix well.
Add sifted flour, salt and sugar and mix again.
Beat eggs and vanilla, pour over fruit and flour and mix all to-gether.
Bake in round tin or log tin which has been greased well and lined with foil or greaseproof paper. Bake approx. 2 hours in slow oven - 250º[F] gas. 
The case can be lined with glace pineapple and cher[r]ies and decorated on top / looks very attractivke [sic] when served.
Cut in very thin dainty slices - very rich.

Source: Our Jubilee Year Recipe Book [Ascot Park Uniting Church Friendship Group] (Adelaide, 1986), p.19.

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