What is the recipe for a six inch christmas cake?
Christmas Cake Favorite British Recipes Ingredients 12oz Currants 12ozs Golden raisins 8oz Raisins 8oz Brown sugar 8oz Butter or Margarine 10oz Flour 4oz Mixed peel Glace cherries 1/2 Lemon – grated rind Orange – grated rind 2 oz Chopped almonds 1-1/2 tsp Mixed spice 1 tbs Black treacle (Molasses) Pinch salt 5 Eggs Milk if required Cream together the butter and sugar, salt, mixed spice, treacle, add eggs one at a time. Stir in the fruit and flour in alternate batches until thoroughly mixed. Use a metal pan about 10″ wide x 5″ or SIX inch high, one with a loose bottom is best. Line sides and bottom of pan with wax paper allowing the paper to extend up over the sides by an inch. Put in round pan and bake at 325f for 1 hour and turn down to 300f and continue cooking for at least 2 hours and then check for doneness by inserting thin instrument until it comes out clean. Store upside-down (you put the icing on the bottom and sides) and leave for about 2 weeks in an airtight tin. Poke holes a
