Boiled fruit cake

• 1 cup water
• 1 cup caster sugar
• 1 lb dried fruit
• 6 oz margarine
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 2 eggs
• 2 cup self raising flour

1. In a large saucepan, mix all of the ingredients apart from the flour, eggs and bicarbonate of soda.
2. Simmer for 15 minutes.
3. Allow the mix to cool completely.
4. Whilst cooling, line a large cake tin with greased baking paper and preheat the oven to 302 F/ 150C.
5. Beat in the eggs.
6. Sift in the flour and bicarbonate of soda and then fold everything together.
7. Pour into the tin and bake for 1 1/2 hours on the middle shelf of the oven.
8. Leave to cool in the tin.

water, caster sugar, margarine, bicarbonate, eggs, flour

Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/334243-boiled-fruit-cake (may not work)