Pineapple Boiled Fruit Cake

Ingredients:

• 16 oz. mixed fruit
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 5 oz. (10 Tbsp.) butter
• 1 small can crushed pineapple
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• 2 eggs
• 1 cup plain flour
• 1 1/4 cups self-raising flour
• 1 tsp. mixed spice
• 1/4 tsp. carb. soda (baking soda)

Directions:

Place mixed fruit, sugar, butter, and pineapple (with juice) into saucepan. Bring to boil and simmer for 5 minutes. Allow to cool.

Lightly beat eggs and stir into cooled mixture. Sift together the flours, mixed spice, and soda and fold into mixture.

Bake in a round or square 7-8 inch tin in a moderate oven for 2 3/4 hours. Test after about 2 hours as time may vary depending on your oven.

Remove from oven when cooked, and let cool before removing from tin, unless you have lined it with baking paper. No need for topping as it's great without.

By Lorraine from Perth, Western Australia