Recipe For Dark Xmas Cake
You can substitute a cup of drained maraschino cherries.
Recipe for dark xmas cake. In a large bowl cream butter until light. Add eggs one at a time beating well after each addition. Toss 1 2 cup into currant mixture.
In a small bowl mix together 2 cups flour baking soda cloves allspice cinnamon and salt. Cover and let stand for 24 hours stirring occasionally. A traditional dark fruity cake perfect for christmas.
This is my mother s very old recipe at least 60 years old. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Remove the cake from the oven and immediately brush with 2 tablespoons of rum.
Preheat the oven to 140 c. Grease an 8x8x3 inch fruit cake pan line with parchment paper and grease again. Put a baking dish with an inch of water in on the very bottom shelf of the oven to get some steam building up in there as it heats up.
Cream butter until light add sugar gradually and continue creaming until fluffy. This is a very long recipe but well worth the trouble. Grease a deep 23cm round tin or 20cm square cake tin with butter line with a double layer of baking paper and grease the paper see golden rules.
Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin. Cover whilst hot with a double layer of foil and leave for 24 hours. Preheat oven to 250 f.