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Date fruit cake

Preparation time: 20 minutes

Cooking time: 2 hours

Serves 10 -12 people

Ingredients  

480g Butter

3 Cups brown sugar (firmly-packed)

2 Tsp. nutmeg

1 Tsp. cinnamon

1 Tsp. ground cloves

1 Tsp. Mace

½ Cup molasses

½ Cup buttermilk

6 Eggs

Short glass of orange juice

4 Cups flour

1 Tsp. soda

900g Dates (pitted)

480g Walnuts (chopped)

120g. each (candied):

  • Citron
  • Orange
  • Lemon
  • Pineapple
  • Cherries

1 Cup red currant jelly

2 Tbsp. flour

Directions 

  1. Cream butter and sugar, add nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves and mace. 
  2. Add molasses and buttermilk.  Stir well.
  3. Then add beaten eggs, orange juice, flour and soda.  Mix fruit together and stir in flour, and to cake.
  4. Bake at 300 degrees for two hours in a 9 x 13-inch pan and test with toothpick in center.