CAKE
1 cup flour, all-purpose
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp allspice
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp cloves
1/2 tsp mace
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 cup butter, melted
2 eggs
3/4 cup coffee (black), cold
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 cup raisins
1 cup fruit, mixed
1 cup dates
1/4 cup rum or brandy
GLAZE
4 tbsp butter
1/2 cup rum or brandy
1/2 cup sugar
A Recipe for
Old World Fruit Cake
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Mix the melted butter, eggs, rum and coffee together. Add brown sugar
and mix well. Add rest of dry ingredients and place in a buttered
loaf pan.
Bake at 300 degrees F. for 2 hours or until done (it will separate
from the sides of the pan). Make glaze when almost completely baked:
Melt (do not boil) butter. Add rum and sugar. Stir by hand. Remove
the cake from the oven and pour half of the glaze over it. Let it
cool 25 minutes, then turn it over and pour the remaining glaze on
the other side.
NOTES:
* A traditional European-style fruit cake -- Although fruitcakes
have a bad reputation, this one is *excellent*. My mother has been
making it for years. She originally got the recipe from a friend, but
has since adapted it to suit her fans. (She gets requests for it all
year long.)
* Don't use glass pans. This freezes well, if you make more than
you can eat; just be sure to wrap it carefully so it doesn't get
freezer burn. Warm frozen cake in the oven, not the microwave.
: Difficulty: easy to moderate.
: Time: 15 minutes preparation, 2 hours baking, 30 minutes finishing.
: Precision: measure the ingredients.
: Seema Chandnani
: University of Chicago Computation Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
: snix@sphinx.uchicago.edu
: Copyright (C) 1986 USENET Community Trust
Serves: 1
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