Light Christmas Cake

Ingredients

• A three sized Christmas Cake Tin Set must be lined, bottoms and
• sides, with buttered brown paper. Cut the paper to size. The
• night before you make this cake, pour boiling water over the raisins,
• drain, and dry on paper toweling. Leave these overnight. The
• fruit in the recipe is floured with 1/2 the amount of flour called
• for in the recipe.
• 1/2 pound butter
• 1 1/2 cup white sugar
• 6 eggs
• 1/2 cup orange juice
• 3 cups regular flour, sifted
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• Juice and rind of 1 lemon
• 1/2 pound red glace cherries
• 1/2 pound green glace cherries
• 1/2 pound citron peel
• 2 slices each, red and green pineapple, cut up
• 2 pounds blanched sultana raisins
• 1/2 pound blanched almonds