Barbaras Fruitcake with real fruit
From peetabear 14 years ago
- 50 minutes to make
- Serves 0
I have been searching for a fruitcake recipe that either I can't find or it is in one of my recipe jumbles.... this is sort of like it.... the recipe makes 4 or 5 small loaves... the recipe is from Bailey's Mills Bed & Breakfast Reading, Vermont (10 miles south of Woodstock)
Ingredients
- 6 oz. dried apricots, chopped shopping list
- 6 oz. prunes, chopped shopping list
- 6 oz. dates, chopped shopping list
- 6 oz. raisins shopping list
- 6 oz. dried cherries shopping list
- 1/3 cup port shopping list
- 1/3 cup triple sec shopping list
- 1 Tablespoon brandy shopping list
- 1/4 cup orange or apple or pineapple juice. shopping list
- 2 Tablespoons lemon juice shopping list
- (Each 6 oz. of dried fruit shopping list
- measures about 1 1/8 cup.) shopping list
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- Mix above ingredients and let stand overnight shopping list
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- Measure and set aside: shopping list
- 1 1/2 cups pecans or 1 cup pecans and 1/2 cup almonds shopping list
- Optional: Chop coarsely shopping list
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- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F' shopping list
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- 2 1/2 cups flour shopping list
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon allspice shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon mace shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon salt shopping list
- 1 teaspoon baking powder shopping list
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- Whisk above ingredients together in large bowl shopping list
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- 1 cup butter shopping list
- 1 cup sugar shopping list
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- Cream butter and sugar. add eggs shopping list
- 5 eggs shopping list
How to make it
- Add to butter-sugar mix. Beat until smooth. Add to dry ingredients. Beat together. Add fruit and nuts to batter. Combine thoroughly. Put into pans.Makes 4 or 5 small loaves.
- Line the pan bottoms with waxed paper. Set aside.
- (The paper will not slip if you first wet the pan with a few drops of water or vegetable oil.)
- Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes, then at 300 degrees for 15 minutes. Not too alcoholic and really very tasty. Not suitable for pounding nails or filling potholes. Eat soon or wrap and refrigerate.
- Variations:
- #1 - Add 1 cup of mini chocolate chips along with the nuts and fruit.
- #2 - Add 1/3 - 1/2 cup finely chopped ginger with the nuts.
- #3 - Combine #1 and #2.
- #4 - To put some real zip in this holiday treat make several weeks ahead and sprinkle weekly with brandy, bourbon, port or sherry.
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Reviewed by 7 people-
I love fruitcakes! This one has such great fruit in it!
clbacon
in Birmingham loved it
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I Love Fruitcakes Too. This Sounds Really Delicious!
goblue434
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That looks wonderful I can smell it!
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