Doug ... ok - so in the interest of finding the truth. It should be possible to find out the recipe that was used for British fruit cakes ... 100 years ago. Thats about the time of the First World War. And that is why they were prepared then ... for British soldiers fighting in the trenches in WW1. So the recipe is definitely in old British cookbooks from that era.
Pete
Edited by Pete (08/17/17 02:50 PM)