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AMERICAN
FRUIT CAKE RECIPE
This recipe of the American
Fruit Cake is a wonderful moist cake. Once your friends have
tasted the American Fruit Cake they will be asking you for
the recipe. This cake is lovely just on its own with a cup
of tea or it is even better with a dab of cream. My dear old
mother used to like the American Fruit Cake with a little
bit of butter spread on it. But what ever way you have it
I'm sure you will enjoy the cake.
American
Fruit Cake Ingredients
6 oz mixed peel
8 oz dates
8 oz seeded raisins
1/4 cup orange juice
4 oz walnuts
1 tsp salt
8 oz glazed cherries
4 oz candied pineapple
1 3/4 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 lb butter
1/2 tsp nutmeg
3 Tbs sugar
1/2 cup honey
5 eggs
1 tsp allspice
1/2 tsp ground cloves
American
Fruit Cake Method
On a cutting
board chop up the raisins, dates and nuts. Chop the pineapple
into bite size pieces and cut the cherries into quarters.
Put them in a bowl and combine them together, add 1/4 cup
of the flour over the mixture. Beat the sugar and butter together
and mix to a cream and then add the honey. Add the eggs one
at a time making sure you beat the mixture well after each
egg you add. Add to this mixture the rest of the flour, spices,
baking powder and the salt also mixing in the orange juice
alternately and mix it well. Now add the fruit and mix it
well again. Line an 8 inch cake tin with two thicknesses of
white and two thicknesses of brown paper having the paper
1 inch above the rim of the tin. Place the American Fruit
Cake in the cake tin and bake it in a slow oven 275 degrees
for about 4 hours.
Enjoy your freshly made American
Fruit Cake!
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