Christmas Cake: A Recipe For Life

Christmas cake: A Recipe for Life

Ingredients
5 teacupfuls flour
1 teacupful melted butter
4500 Saxons, unwilling to convert to Christianity, beheaded.
1 teacupful cream
1 teacupful treacle
Between 5,000 and 11,000 men, women and children, unwilling to pay suffocating church taxes slain 27th May 1234 near Altenesch, Germany.
1 teacupful moist sugar
80,000 Turks slaughtered at the Battle of Belgrade 1456
2 eggs
1oz of powdered ginger
20 million victims of First Crusade
1lb of raisins
several hundred thousand witches, burned at the stake or hanged
1 teaspoonful carbonate of soda
20,000 Huguenots killed on command of Pope Pius V
Thousands of Jews slaughtered in 1096, maybe 12,000 in total
All the Jews of Basel and Strasbourg, lightly burned.
200,000 Polish Jews, massacred in 1684.

Countless dates, all forgotten

1 tablespoonful of vinegar.