Thursday, December 20, 2012

Dark Fruit Cake








Dark Fruit Cake

Ingredients

¼ pound butter or ½ cup shortening
1 cup dark-brown sugar, firmly packed
1 teaspoon lemon extract
2 eggs
½ cup molasses
2 cups flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon allspice
½ teaspoon mace
¼ teaspoon ground cloves
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup milk
2 cups small pieces mixed candied fruit
½ cup small pieces candied citron
1 cup raisins
1 cup chopped pecans

Method

1.                  Preheat the oven to 325°F (165°).
2.                  Butter two 9 x 5-inch loaf pans, line them with foil, then butter the foil. 
3.                  Cream the butter or shortening, add the brown sugar, and beat until light.
4.                  Add the lemon extract and eggs and beat well.
5.                  Stir in the molasses and blend. 
6.                  Mix together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, allspice, mace, cloves, and salt; beat into the first mixture.
7.                  Add the milk and beat until smooth.  Stir in the candied fruit, citron, raisins, and pecans and mix well. 
8.                  Spoon into the pans and bake 1 – 1 ¼ hours, until a toothpick comes out clean.  Turn out onto racks to cool.  When completely cool, wrap well and store in an airtight container.

Brandied Fruit Cake:  Soak two large pieces of cheesecloth in brandy.  Wrap each fruit cake in the cheesecloth, covering all sides, then wrap well in a foil.  Moisten the cheesecloth with additional brandy every few days for about a week.  The brandy will flavour the cake and help preserve it too.

Dark Fruit Cake was made and prepared by Shirley-Ann Pearman
Photography by Shirley-Ann Pearman
Recipe was taken from The Fannie Farmer CookBook, the chapter on “Cakes” Cakes Made With Shortening (Butter Cakes), Recipe on page 627 of the Twelfth Edition. 


Shopping Online




 

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Shop online at Amazon.com your one stop shop with many departments, along with access to hundreds of the world's online stores such as Macys, JCPenney, Target etc.  

Sales and discounts available daily on many products.  Rewards are available to shoppers as well.


Thank You!


Shirley-Ann Pearman

Recipe Marketing

Marketing Sites



No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe