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Fruit Cake

Ingredients

1 cup of raisins (half dark and half golden)
1 and 1/4 cups self rising flour
1 small bottle of candied cherries, sliced
1/2 cup cornstarch
1 tsp baking powder
3/4 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
4 large eggs
1/3 cup candied lemon peel (you can make by cutting lemon peel into strips and boiling in a sugar and water mixture for several minutes. Turn off heat and let it sit for 1/2 hour. Remove lemon peel and let dry on a baking sheet for several hours.)
1 cup chopped almonds
1/4 cup rum
Fine bread crumbs
  • Grease a standard loaf pan and sprinkle it with fine bread crumbs.
  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Toss raisins in a little flour.
  • Sift the remaining flour, cornstarch and baking powder together.
  • In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy.
  • Beat in 1 egg.
  • Gradually beat the remaining eggs into the creamed mixture, stirring a little flour mixture between each addition.
  • Fold in remaining flour mixture.
  • Stir in lemon peel, almonds, raisins and rum into the mixture.
  • Turn the batter into prepared pan; smooth the surface.
  • Bake for about 1 hour or until a wooden skewer inserted into the center comes our clean.
  • Remove cake from pan and cool on rack.
  • Slice and serve.

 

Servings

8

Prep

25 min

Cook

40 min

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    Skill Level

    Easy