This recipe comes from a small red receipt/accounts style notebook that I found marked with the handwritten title EXHIBITION RECIPES. I presume this belonged to someone who baked for village fetes, the WI and the like. The first recipe is for
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“Exhibition Fruit Cake”
Whisk to half Sponge
2lbs Eggs
1lb 7ozs Castor
11ozs Butter
10.5ozs Fat
1lb 5.5ozs Flour
0.5oz Salt
4ozs Ground Almonds
essence
7.5ozs Flour
Heavy Fruit
3.5 lbs Fruit
Light Fruit
2.25 lbs Fruit
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I hardly ever cook/bake and don’t like fruit cake so I haven’t tried this myself but if anyone makes it please let me know if it tastes good 🙂
