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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XLIX, Issue 50, 28 December 1922, Page 41

sugar. h ill up with the batter, cover loosely with greased paper and steam l-J hours. Turn out and serve with sugar. This pudding may also be baked in a piedish.

A FRUIT CAKE WHICH WILL KEEP.

Weigh one pound of flour, and mix with it three pounds of raisins and currants, combined in the proportion of or A pound and one-half of each. Put into the flour sifter a cup or two at a time, and sift until the flour and the floured fruit are separated. Add to the flour three teaspoonsful each of ground cloves and mace, also one large nutmeg grated, and sift once more. Cream one pound of butter until light and white; add gradually one pound of sugar, the juice and grated rind of one lemon, one-half a cup of treacle, and the beaten yolks of five eggs, added alternately with the flour sifted with spices, and the stiff-beaten whites of the five eggs. Lastly, add sufficient thick, tinned unsweetened milk, to mix all well. Lino a round pan with well-greased paper, and pour in enough of the cake batter to cover the bottom. Have ready one-half a pound of citron, out into thin strips, .and arrange some of these in the batter in the pan. Pour in another layer of batter, stick strips of citron into this, and so proceed until all the batter is used up. Cover with greased paper, and bake for.three hours in a moderate oven with gradually increasing heat, removing the paper at the end to brown the top. Or the cake may bo steamed for the first two hours, and baked for the third hour. Various methods are 4 employed to keep the cake for a long time. It may have the paper removed and -be iced all over at once. It may retain the paper and be iced on top. It may be stored in a tin box with an open bowl of water, the box closely covered. It may be placed in a layer of sugar an inch deep in a cake box, and then have sugar added to fill in around the sides and cover the top to the depth of an inch. A glass of brandy added is a great improvement, and keeps the cake good for a year.