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- From: snix@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Seema Chandnani)
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- Subject: RECIPE: Old-world fruitcake
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- Date: 23 Oct 87 05:14:03 GMT
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE FRUIT-CAKE-2 D "15 Apr 87" 1987
- .RZ "OLD WORLD FRUIT CAKE" "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.)
- .IH "1 large fruitcake"
- .SH CAKE
- .IG "1 cup" "all-purpose flour" "100 g"
- .IG "\(12 tsp" "salt" "2.5 ml"
- .IG "\(14 tsp" "baking soda" "1 ml"
- .IG "\(14 tsp" "baking powder" "1 ml"
- .IG "\(12 tsp" "allspice" "2.5 ml"
- .IG "\(12 tsp" "cinnamon" "2.5 ml"
- .IG "\(12 tsp" "cloves" "2.5 ml"
- .IG "\(12 tsp" "mace" "2.5 ml"
- .IG "\(12 tsp" "nutmeg" "2.5 ml"
- .IG "\(12 cup" "melted butter" "120 g"
- .IG "2" "eggs"
- .IG "\(34 cup" "black coffee" "180 ml"
- (cold)
- .IG "\(12 cup" "brown sugar" "100 g"
- .IG "1 cup" "raisins" "150 g"
- .IG "1 cup" "mixed fruit" "250 g"
- .IG "1 cup" "dates" "300 g"
- .IG "\(14 cup" "rum or brandy" "60 ml"
- .SH GLAZE
- .IG "4 Tbsp" "butter" "60 g"
- .IG "\(12 cup" "rum or brandy" "120 ml"
- .IG "\(12 cup" "sugar" "100 g"
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Mix the melted butter, eggs, rum and coffee together.
- .SK 2
- Add brown sugar and mix well.
- .SK 3
- Add rest of dry ingredients and place in a buttered loaf pan.
- .SK 4
- Bake at
- .TE 300 150
- for 2 hours or until done (it will
- separate from the sides of the pan).
- .SK 5
- Make glaze when almost completely baked: Melt (do not boil) butter.
- Add rum and sugar. Stir by hand.
- .SK 6
- 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.
- .SK 7
- Notes: 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.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- easy to moderate.
- .I Time:
- 15 minutes preparation, 2 hours baking, 30 minutes finishing.
- .I Precision:
- measure the ingredients.
- .WR
- Seema Chandnani
- University of Chicago Computation Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- snix@sphinx.uchicago.edu
-