Heavy Fruit Cake
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Easy
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Ingredients
For 6 Person(s)
Recipe
- 2 cup(s) prunes
- 2 cup(s) currants
- 2 cup(s) raisins
- 1 cup(s) cherries
- 8 cup(s) red wine
- 1 cup(s) white rum
- 1 cup(s) Margarine
- 2 cup(s) brown sugar
- 8 medium eggs
- 3 cup(s) flour
- 2 tablespoon(s) baking powder
- 1 tablespoon(s) nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon(s) mixed spice
- 1/2 cup(s) bread crumbs
- 1 teaspoon(s) vanilla essence
- 1 tablespoon(s) Grace Browning
- 1 cup(s) almonds, chopped
Heavy Fruit Cake Directions
- Put fruits to soak in red wine and rum some weeks before use.
- Cream Grace Hello Margarine and sugar until light and creamy.
- Beat in eggs one at a time.
- Sift together flour, baking powder and spices. Add the bread crumbs.
- Add vanilla and browning to fruit mixture.
- Add the dry ingredients alternately with the fruits, beginning and ending with the flour mixture; then fold in the almonds.
- Scrape mixture into a greased and lined baking tin. Bake at 150°C/300°F until done, or until a cake tester comes out clean.
Method Note: Mixture may also be steamed in a greased and covered container.
1 cup wine may also be poured over cake while still hot.
To Serve: Allow to cool, slice and serve.
