article_snippet.sent: Baking the 44 The WI fruitcakes used more than five stone of butter, several hundred eggs and enough rum to paralyse a fleet of pirate ships.
article_snippet.sent: Here’s what it took in total: .
article_snippet.sent: The cakes’ creation has been a military exercise for retired home economics teachers, Anne Harrison, 72, a dairy farmer’s wife from Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, and Pat Tulip, 75, from Bilton, Northumberland.
article_snippet.sent: They spent 11 full days last month baking 44 12 x 12in cakes 3.5in deep between They.
article_snippet.sent: We used cheap flour and bought eggs in bulk.