Fruit Cake (Mollies) 11 oz butter - 1 lb flour - 10 oz plums 11 oz raisins - 6 oz candied peel - 1 lb soft sugar ½ a grated nutmeg, and a few chopped almonds 8 eggs - 2 tea spoons essence of vanilla - 2 tea sps: baking powder ¼ lb cherries. juice and rind of 1 lemon. Method Beat the butter to a cream with the sugar. Then put in yolks of eggs well beaten up. Stir well. Fold in whites also well beaten up. Add the fruit. Last of all the flour in which the baking powder has been previously mixed. Bake in a paper-lined greased tin. The oven must not be too hot.
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