One has decided to make a Christmas Cake this year and called on some help from the delightful Maggie Beer.
As you will no doubt be aware, one loves a multiple step, preferably, multiple day recipe that gives one hours in the kitchen.
This is the fruit, there's sultanas, currants, raisins, orange and mandarin peel and candied cumquats in the bowl. Now the fruit is hanging out in the bowl for a week along with its friend St Agnes Brandy!
Oh it smells good! YUM
Plus when it comes out of the oven one has to douse the cake in more liquor! Perfecto!
ooh, we have to make a christmas pudding this year. Keep the updates (and photos) coming, so we know whether we should follow your lead and go for the weeks' long venture or the old packet mix (surely there's an xmas pud packet mix on the market somewhere??).
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