Fruit Cake-Myrtle

Directions

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   4 c Flour 1 c Brown sugar 1 c Golden syrup 4 Eggs 1 c Butter -or drippings 1 lb Currants 1 lb Sultana raisins 1/2 lb Candied orange peel 4 t

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   Cream the butter and gradually add the sugar, then add the eggs well beaten

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   Then add the syrup, fruit, nut meats,peel chopped fine, the fruit juice and the flour

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   Mix and turn into a papered cake tin and bake in a slow oven for 3 hours

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   This reciped was transcribed from my Grandma Dixon's handwritten recipe book used by her during the first quarter of this century

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   Liz Parkinson