Early Planning - Christmas Cake 1947 Style

Rationing did not end until almost the middle 1950s. The 1947 Christmas Cake was therefore not quite the version one could enjoy a few years later!

Ingredients:

85 grams sugar - soft brown - then - let me think - let's have a few bullet points!

• 2  eggs


• 3 tablespoons Golden Syrup


• 225 grams plain flour


• 2 1/2 grams Bicarbonate of Soda


• 5 grams cinnamon ground


• 5 grams mixed spice


• 450 grams dried fruit mixture


• 3 tablespoons tea cold and well strained


• 1 pinch salt and finally


• 115 grams of margarine

Instructions

[1] Line a 7" (18 cm) cake tin with greaseproof paper.
Preheat the oven to 150C 

[2] Cream the margarine and sugar and gradually add beaten eggs, then the syrup.

[3] Sift all dry ingredients together - add to the creamed mixture along with the fruit and  tea.

[4] Then spoon into the cake tin  - then make a hollow in the centre so the cake will stay flat on top.

[5] Bake for 2 hours until firm to the touch and the sides have shrunk away a little from the sides.

[6] Cool in the tin. When cold remove from the tin & store in an airtight container

This receipe is at your own risk: the writer cannot be held responsible for wrecking your Christmas or dampening your spirits.

WB