Pineapple fruit cake

This moist, boiled fruit cake is one of Ann’s favourite pineapple recipes. She bakes it every Christmas to include in a basket of seasonal goodies for her family. The recipe comes from a book produced in 1975 to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association of New South Wales. Titled The Liberated Cook by the Reluctant Housewife, it was compiled by Valerie Bursill, who unashamedly admits in the introduction that she dislikes cooking. ‘There are so many more interesting things fo