Nanna Cannon's Christmas Cake Recipe

One of my recollections of Christmas growing up as a child in Australia is of the Christmas fruit cakes that my Great Grandmother would make. They came home wrapped in tin foil and would last long after Christmas had passed. The cake was so sweet and rich that we would slather it with margarine.

In recognition of the Christmas season, here is Nanna Cannon's Christmas Cake Recipe, exactly as it is written in her handwriting in the Recipe Book that I am lucky to have (and previously wrote about here).

Xmas Cake
In large saucepan,

500g mixed fruits
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
1/4 lb margarine
1 tablespoon golden syrup

Bring to boil.
Remove from stove.
Add & stir in

1 teaspoon carb-soda.

Cool.
Pour into mixing bowl.

Add 2 beaten eggs
2 1/2 cups plain flour.

Mix well. Pour into prepared cake tin.
Oven on 250 for 2 1/2 hours.
Do not open oven door, before 1 1/2 hours, while cake is cooking.
Leave cake stand 3 days before cutting.

My Notes:

500 grams of mixed fruit is roughly 2 cups
1/4 pound of margarine is 1/2 cup
carb soda is baking soda

The cake comes pretty close to resembling this, although I remember it as being darker and filled with both green and red fruit bits:

Image: Randy Son Of Robert

Are there any special recipes in your family that are only brought out for the holidays?

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