Fruit Cakes.

• ½ lb. flour
• pinch salt
• ½ tea-spoon baking powder
• 4 ozs. margarine
• cold water

• 2 ozs. currants
• 4 ozs. raisins
• 1 large chopped apple
• 1 oz. chopped suet
• 2 ozs. sugar
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon

Prepare filling by chopping and mixing thoroughly.

Pastry:-

Sift flour, salt and baking powder, cut up margarine amongst flour. Mix to a dough with cold water. Roll and fold three times. Roll to size required. Place layer of pastry in tin, then fruit and cover with pastry. Brush over egg and bake in fairly hot oven at first. Remove to colder part of oven to finish cooking. Immediately on taking out of oven, sprinkle castor sugar over. Cut into squares.