1/2  cup           Butter
   1      cup           Brown sugar
   3                    Egg -- beaten
   2 1/4  cups          Flour -- self rising
     1/2  teaspoon      Apple pie spice
   1      pinch         Salt
     2/3  cup           Raisins -- soaked in Guinness
                         
     1/2  cup           Candied peel -- soaked
   1 1/3  cups          Golden raisins -- soaked
     1/4  cup           Candied cherries
   8      fluid ounces  Guinness or other dark beer

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Cream the butter and sugar until the sugar is dissolved; beat in the eggs.
Add the flour, salt, apple pie spice and the soaked dried fruit.
Mix in the Guinness, grease a deep 8 inch cake pan and pour
the mixture in.  Bake for about 2 hours until firm in the center.