Ingredients:

240 gms Maida
200 gms sugar
4 eggs
120 gms butter
1 tsp. baking powder
360 gms raisins
100 ml rum
few drops vanilla essence
150 gms lemon peel
50 gms walnuts
30 gms crystallised cherries

Method:

1. Grease the cake tin and sprinkle a little flour on the surface. Place a sheet of paraffin paper on the bottom.

2. Cut the cherries, walnuts and lemon peel into small pieces and immerse them along with the raisins in the rum.

3. Cream the butter and sugar along with the vanilla essence.

4. Add in the eggs gradually mixing all the while.

5. Fold in the flour and baking powder.

6. Mix in the rum with all the ingredients soaked in it.

7. Pour the cake batter into the tin and bake at 160° C for about 15 to 20 minutes.