Traditional Christmas Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• 100 ml of sherry
• 250 g of currants
• 200 g of dark muscovado sugar
• 250 g of raisins
• 85 g of glacé cherries, chopped
• 200 g of butter, softened
• 85 g of mixed peel
• 4 eggs, beaten
• 1/2 tsp of baking powder
• 1 sheet of baking parchment
• 100 g of pecan nuts, broken into pieces
• 1 1/2 tsp of orange juice
• 1/2 tsp of mixed spice
• 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract
• 50 g of ground almonds
• 1 lemon, finely grated zest only
• 200 g of plain flour