Lockington's Everyday Fiji ... Life Goes On

Allen Lockington is a self-employed customs agent and business consultant who has regular articles published in www.connectme.com.fj/news/opinion. I thank Allen and Connect for permission to reprint some of them in this political blog. They remind us that life goes on, whatever the political situation. And it's good to know that.

Christmas  Cake

 by Anonymous

 2 kg flour

 1 tsp mixed spice
250grams butter
1 cup brown sugar
Vanilla essence
4 eggs

1 tbsp lemon juice
1 cup dried fruit
1 cup mixed peel

                         1 cup cherries                            

1 40 oz Rum

Method

Heat the oven. Grease cake tin. Make sure the rum is ok.  Mix flour, spice and dried fruit. Break eggs. Scoop from the floor.  Pour into flour mixture. Make sure the rum is still Ok.
Hic, pour misture into tin.
Toss cake misture into oven. Make shure the rum ish hokay. Bake for 30 minutes.

Make sure rum ish Ok.
Remove cake. Run screaming to tap to cool fingers, blessing the oven.

Pick cake from floor. Make shure rum ish k.
Pour in 1 cup of rum or should that be one tableshpoon over cake.

Drop to floor, lick all the rum.

Check the whiskey. Look into bottle and wonder where the rum went.
Whisky, oops that should be whisk the egg whites adding sugar at intervals.

Beat well until the icing is shoft. Do a pirouette, oops get up of the floor.

Check the whisky again.
Lean over and spread icing all over the table and some on the cake.

Sneeze. Cough. Squint at the cake. Sigh.
Slide slowly to floor and pass out with a satisfied smile.

Merry Christmas friends.