Old Fashioned Fruit Cake With Rum & Cheese Cloth

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Ground almonds, pecans or walnuts are hands substituted.

I like to toast the nuts and go on them in chunks to add to the batter.

Inspired past my Newfoundland upbringing, this night English fruitcake with roots in the United kingdom is one of my favourite things to look forward to at Christmas. This is a large cake meant to be served in small-scale pieces.

Fruit mixture subsequently it has been boiled

Finished batter for the Old English Fruitcake in a large stainless steel basin

All set up for the oven.

Make information technology as 2 loaf cakes and decorate the acme to your own liking.

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Originally published on Nov 7, 2007. Updated November 2017 to include Pin-able photos for Pinterest and to provide metric measurement conversions if preferred.

Prep Time: 45 minutes

Melt Time: 2 hours

Total Time: 2 hours 45 minutes

Old English language Fruitcake - A dark, rich, well spiced old fashioned English style fruitcake that can be fabricated weeks in advance of Christmas.

Ingredients

• one ane/4 cups chopped dried prunes (six oz), chopped
• 1 i/iv cups chopped dates (vi oz), chopped
• one 1/2 cups dark raisins (8 oz)
• ane 1/4 cups golden raisins (half-dozen oz)
• 1 1/4 cups currants (6 oz)
• ¾ loving cup butter
• 1 cup dark brown carbohydrate
• ¾ loving cup molasses
• ½ loving cup coffee liqueur, or ½ cup strong black coffee
• Zest and juice of 2 oranges
• 1 cup chopped slippery cherries
• 1 loving cup candy-coated citrus peel
• i one/ii cups toasted pecans (vii oz), roughly chopped
• 2 tsp allspice
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 2 tsp powdered ginger
• 1 tsp cloves
• 2 tsp nutmeg
• iii tbsp cocoa
• three eggs
• 1 1/3 cups all purpose flour
• ½ loving cup basis hazelnuts or almonds
• ½ tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp blistering soda

Instructions

1. In a big saucepan melt the butter over medium heat and add the raisins, dates, prunes, currents, brown sugar, molasses, spices, coffee liqueur (or coffee) and the orange zest and juice.
2. Bring to a gentle boil and very slowly simmer for 10 minutes.
3. Remove from heat and allow to cool for 30-45 minutes.
4. When absurd stir in the beaten eggs.
5. Sift together, flour, cocoa, baking powder, blistering soda.
6. Add together the ground basics and fold through the boiled mixture. Fold in cherries, citrus peel and pecans. Pour into prepared baking pan. You can decorate the top with additional pecan halves, cherries etc., if you like.
7. Bake at 300 degrees F for ane ½ to 2 hours depending upon the size of your pan. Mine took the full 2 hours in a x inch spring grade pan.The cake should feel firm to the touch at the center and a wooden toothpick inserted into the center should come out make clean. The cake should be cooled completely in the pan on a wire rack before removing.
8. At this signal you can poke minor holes in the tiptop and bottom of the block with a fork and pour on four ounces of dark rum or your favorite whiskey, one-half on the top, await ten minutes, then flip it over and pour the remaining half on the bottom.
9. Soak several layers of cheesecloth in additional rum if y'all like and wrap completely around the cake, then cover with several layers of plastic wrap and store in a COOL place.
10. When serving, you can add a layer of marzipan or if you accept busy the top with fruit and basics, brush with a elementary glaze of equal parts water and sugar boiled together for about 10-15 minutes.

Notes

The nutritional information provided is automatically calculated by third party software and is meant as a guideline only. Exact accurateness is not guaranteed. For recipes where all ingredients may not be used entirely, such as those with coatings on meats, or with sauces or dressings for example, calorie & nutritional values per serving will probable be somewhat lower than indicated.

Diet Information

Yield

40

Serving Size

g
Amount Per Serving Calories 231 Saturated Fat 2g Cholesterol 21mg Sodium 62mg Carbohydrates 40g Fiber 2g Sugar 24g Poly peptide 2g

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