¹⁄₂ cup butter
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
¹⁄₄ cup chopped nuts
¹⁄₄ cup candied orange peel
1 cup raisins
1 cup currants
⁵⁄₈ cup pickled fruit syrup or molasses
2 cups flour
¹⁄₂ teaspoon soda
¹⁄₂ teaspoon cream of tartar
2 teaspoons mixed spices
Mix and sift the flour, soda, cream of tartar, and spices. Put all the
ingredients together in the order given, flouring the fruit with a
little of the measured flour. Put it into a greased pan and bake it for
one and one-quarter hours in an insulated oven, with stones heated as
explained on page 225, till the paper is a light brown.