With thanks to Mum for digging out the recipe.

Ingredients

4 oz margarine
1/2 pint cold tea
8 oz mixed fruit
4 oz castor sugar
1 tbs golden syrup
8 oz self raising flour
1 level tsp bicarbonate of soda
pinch of salt
1/2 tsp mixed spice
1/2 tsp cinnamon

Method

Soak the fruit in the cold tea over night. Do not put the fruit into hot tea or it will taste bitter.
Put the fruit mixture in a pan with the margarine, sugar,and syrup and melt over a low heat. Simmer for five minutes. Cool.

Sift the dry ingredients together in a large bowl. Make a well in the centre and add the fruit mixture and mix well.

Pour into a greased deep cake tin.

Sprinkle demerara sugar on the top.

Cook at 160 degrees for about 1 hour 20 minutes.

Note: if the mixture seems a bit wet add some more flour or the cake will sink.

The cake gets more moist the longer you leave it before eating it.

You can vary this recipe by using coffee.