Boiled Fruit Cake

The gardeners came today and finished cutting down a very overgrown hedge as well as tidying up the front border; other work was also carried out in our large garden, which neither of us are capable of keeping under control any more.
 
I spent most of the day catching up with u3a and other paperwork.
 
Today’s picture is of a boiled fruit cake, similar to a Christmas cake, but not as rich and much less time consuming to make. This is for eating now, not saved until Christmas.
 
The temperature at noon today was fourteen degrees Celsius.