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Some of you will have got my special Christmas Cake recipe, but for those who haven't, here it is again:
Christmas Cake Recipe
(From Kath's distant cousin Alice North in USA)
Ingredients :
1 cup water, 1 tsp baking soda, 1 cup sugar, 1 tsp salt, 1 cup brown sugar, lemon juice,
4 large eggs, nuts, 1 bottle Johnnie Walker, 2 cups dried fruit.
Method : Sample the Johnnie Walker to check quality. Take a large bowl, check the whisky again.
To be sure, it really is OK. pour 1 cup of whisky and drink.
Turn on electric mixer. Beat 1 cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl. Add 1 tsp of sugar. Beat again.
Make sure whisky still OK. Turn off mixerer. Break 2 leggs and add to the bowl, chuck in cup of dried fruit.
Mix on the turner. If fruit gets stuck in the beaters, pry loose with a drewscriver.
Sample the whisky to check for tonsisticity. Next, sift 2 cups of salt. Or something. Whatever you can find.
Greash the oven and push cake tin in the fridge. Turn the tin 350 defrees.
Don't forget beat off the .. the turner. Throw the bowl... through the window.
Chk the whisky again.... and go to bed.