Christmas Cake - as made by Sylvia Drake's friend

Ingredients:
3/4lb (340g) butter
3/4lb (340g) brown sugar
6 eggs
1 heaped Tsp marmalade
1 heaped Tsp treacle
1dsp vanilla essence
3/4 tsp almond essence
2 dsp mixed spice
1/2 tsp nutmeg
Small pinch of salt
17oz (482g) plain flour
3oz (85g) SR flour
2 kg  mixed fruit
3/4 cup sweet sherry

Combine dried fruit, sherry,spices and essences - stand overnight.
Cream butter and sugar then add marmalade and treacle.
Add eggs then flour and fruit.

Put mix into a well lined 10" (25cm) cake tin.
Smooth over with wet hands.

Cook for 4 hours at 150C.

If cooking a multi tiered cake this is the amount of mix for the middle and top tier

Ice upside down.