Nanna's Christmas Cake

• 250 g butter
• 250 g sultanas
• 125 g glace red cherries
• 375 g mixed dried fruit
• 2 12 cups plain flour
• 12 teaspoon baking powder
• 6 eggs
• 1 tablespoon parisenne spice essence
• 14 cup rum or 14 cup brandy or 14 cup sherry wine
• 250 g brown sugar
• 250 g seeded raisins
• 125 g slivered almonds
• 12 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 1 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 orange, juice and zest of
• 1 pinch salt

1. On the first day.
2. Finely chop fruit and soak overnight in the alcohol,parisenne essence, orange juice and rind.
3. On the second day.
4. Pre heat oven to 160 degrees celsius.
5. Cream butter and sugar.
6. Add eggs one at a time, mix well and set aside.
7. Sift flour, bicarbonate soda, nutmeg, baking powder and mix through the fruit mixture.
8. Add the almonds and creamed mixture.
9. Line a 20cm x 7cm square tin with two layers of brown paper, one layer being greaseproof paper.
10. Bake at 160 degrees celsius for 30 minutes, then reduce the oven to 120 degrees celsius and cook for a further 150 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
11. Let cake cool in tin and then remove from tin and place on a cooling rack.

butter, sultanas, glace red cherries, flour, baking powder, eggs, parisenne spice, rum, brown sugar, raisins, almonds, bicarbonate of soda, nutmeg, orange, salt

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/nannas-christmas-cake-182419 (may not work)