Plum Cake

Ingredients

• 250 g sugar
• 250 g butter
• 250 g very fine flour
• 80 g candied peel
• 80 g malaga raisins
• 80 g sultana raisins
• 80 g small raisins (passolina)
• 5 whole eggs
• 4 egg yolks
• 1 dl rum
• lemon zest or vanilla

Instructions

1. Strip the candied peel and seed the malaga raisins.
2. Cream the butter with the sugar until white, then beat in the eggs one at a time, the flour, and the fruits and rum.
3. Bake in a paper-lined greased mould; serve hot dusted with icing sugar, or cold. Serves twelve.