SULTANA CAKE

Ingredients....250 gm of butter/ marg, 1 cup of castor sugar, 2 and 1/2 cups of plain flour, 1/4 cup of self raising flour, 5 eggs, lightly beaten, 750 gm of sultanas, 125 gm of granulated nuts, 1/4 c up of Apera ( cream sherry ), pinch of salt, 1 tsp of vanilla extract. Cover the sultanas with warm water, soak for 2 hours. Drain and let dry for at least 24 hours. Preheat your oven to 180 deg C. Grease and line a 20 cm square cake pan / 23 cm round cake pan. Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add a little of the beaten eggs along with a tbs of the plain flour, to prevent curdling, beating well after each addition. Mix the flours together with the salt. Then mix in the sultanas and the nuts. Fold in the Apera and vanilla. Spoon the mixture in the prepared pan and bake in the preheated oven for 90 minutes or until until tested with a skewer and it comes out clean.