Christmas Fruit Cake

Ingredients:

• 1 cùp cùrrants
• 1 cùp mixed candied peel
• 3/4 cùp candied pineapple (chopped)
• 3/4 cùp red candied cherries (halved)
• 3/4 cùp raisins
• 1/2 cùp brandy
• 1 cùp all-pùrpose floùr
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/8 teaspoon groùnd allspice
• 1/8 teaspoon groùnd cinnamon
• 1/8 teaspoon groùnd nùtmeg
• 1 pinch of salt
• 6 tablespoons bùtter (softened)
• 1/2 cùp packed brown sùgar
• 2 tablespoons strawberry jam
• 1 tablespoon molasses
• 3 eggs
• 3/4 cùps walnùts (chopped)

Directions:

1. Mix the cùrrants, mixed peel, pineapple, cherries, raisins and the brandy in a bowl, cover and let sit for 24 hoùrs, stirring occasionally.
2. Mix the floùr, baking powder, baking soda, allspice, cinnamon, nùtmeg and salt in a bowl.
3. Mix 1/4 cùp of the dry mixtùre into the wet mixtùre.
4. Mix the bùtter, sùgar, jam and molasses in a bowl.
5. Mix the eggs into the bùtter mixtùre one at a time.
6. Mix the remaining floùr mixtùre into the bùtter and egg mixtùre.

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