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Title: Fruit Cake-Myrtle
Categories: Cake
Yield: 1 Servings

4cFlour
1cBrown sugar
1cGolden syrup
4 Eggs
1cButter or drippings
1lbCurrants
1lbSultana raisins
1/2lbCandied orange peel
4tbNut meats, chopped
3tsBaking powder
1/4tsSalt
1/2cFruit juice
1tsCinnamon
1tsCloves
1tsAllspice
2tsGinger
1/2tsNutmeg

Directions: Sift together the flour, salt, spices and baking powder. Cream the butter and gradually add the sugar, then add the eggs well beaten. Then add the syrup, fruit, nut meats,peel chopped fine, the fruit juice and the flour. Mix and turn into a papered cake tin and bake in a slow oven for 3 hours. This reciped was transcribed from my Grandma Dixon's handwritten recipe book used by her during the first quarter of this century.

Liz Parkinson

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