Light fruit cake with brandy sauce

Light fruit cake with brandy sauce

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In the past, Christmas lunch in our family was an event of 50 to 60 relatives, friends and neighbours, held on the back lawn of my grandparents’ house under the enormous old pecan-nut trees.

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Ingredients

  • 250g butter
  • 200g sugar
  • 5 eggs
  • 5ml vanilla
  • 25ml brandy
  • 500g cake flour
  • 10ml baking powder
  • 2ml salt
  • 250g glacé cherries (halved)
  • 50g pecan nuts (chopped)
  • 250g light sultana raisins
  • 50g ginger preserve (cut to the same size as the halved cherries)
  • 100g melon preserve (cut to the same size as the halved cherries)
  • 150g preserved citrus rind

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