I've been getting a lot of recipe exchange emails lately, and am only sorry I did not think to forward this wonderful Christmas cake recipe, an old favourite of my mother's and of all her Cape Breton family. If you have time, you might want to see if you can make this delicious, one of a kind cake.
Enjoy!
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CHRISTMAS CAKE RECIPE.
Ingredients:
* 2 cups flour
* 1 stick butter
* 1 cup of water
* 1 tsp baking soda
* 1 cup of sugar
* 1 tsp salt
* 1 cup of brown sugar
* lemon juice
* 4 large eggs
* nuts
* 2 bottles wine
* 2 cups of dried fruit
Sample the wine to check quality.
Take a large bowl, check the wine again.
To be sure it is of the highest quality, pour one level cup and drink.
Repeat. Turn on the electric mixer.
Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl.
Add one teaspoon of sugar. Beat again. At this point it's best to make sure the wine is still OK.
Try another cup... just in case.
Turn off the mixerer thingy.
Break 2 eggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit.
Pick the frigging fruit up off floor. Mix on the turner. If the fried
druit gets stuck in the beaterers just pry it loose with a drewscriver.
Sample the wine to check for tonsisticity. Next, sift two cups of salt.
Or something.
Check the wine. Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts.
Add one table. Add a spoon of sugar, or some fink. Whatever you can find.
Greash the oven. Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over.
Don't forget to beat off the turner.
Finally, throw the bowl through the window.
Finish the wine and wipe counter with the cat.
Go to Loblaws and buy cake.
Bingle Jells!
**Okay, so this isn’t a family recipe. But it could have been. You have no idea how big (popular, I mean) fruit cake was in my family. Especially the kind with wine in it. Or was that brandy? (And isn’t that sort of the same thing?) Anyway, my mother used to make me bow to the east everytime she baked one. (A cake, I mean.)
Furthermore, I would credit my sources if I had half an inkling where this forward originated. But mostly I wish I knew whose recipe this is because perhaps they have others just like it.
Happy holiday baking, everyone!
hiccup
