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1. Put dried fruit in a bowl
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2. Add the brandy
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3. Soak overnight in brandy
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4. Prepare rest of ingredients
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5. Preheat Oven to slow 150 degrees celcius
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6. Finely grate the orange
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7. Stir the soaked dried fruit
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8. Weigh out the almonds and other stuff
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9.Line base and sides of 20" round tin with greaseproof paper
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10. Weigh out the brown sugar
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11. Stir again
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12. Weigh out the black treacle and other stuff
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13. Follow the recipe
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14. Crack open the free range eggs
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15. Cream the sugar and butter
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16. Keep creaming until light and fluffy
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17. Add Eggs
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18. Add esences, treacle and jam
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19. Add the orange rind
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20. Add the dried fruit
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21. Keep adding the dried fruit
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22. Fold in dry ingredients
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23. Stir until combined
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24. Spoon mixture into tin
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25. Even out, use cold water to get a flat surface
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26. Wrap more greaseproof paper around the tin and secure
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27. Pop in oven
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28. Bake in oven for 3 hours plus until skewer comes out clean
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30. Keep wrapping! Its christmas after all
