This Classic, Simple FRUITCAKE Recipe Will CHANGE Your Mind About Fruitcake! Easy and Customizable! скачать в хорошем качестве

This Classic, Simple FRUITCAKE Recipe Will CHANGE Your Mind About Fruitcake! Easy and Customizable!

This simple fruit cake recipe will change your mind about fruitcake! This recipe comes from the Woman’s Home Companion Cook Book which was copyrighted around 1944. You can use whatever dried fruit and nuts you want. You can use whatever liquor you want or you can leave it out all together. I couldn’t find citron ANYTHING so I left that out. I used the candied orange and lemon peel that we made in this video here:    • Easy CANDIED PEEL Recipe! Candy ORANGE & L...  . I made the 5lb version but you can divide the batter up into smaller amounts. Townsends did a great video about preserved strawberries:    • Rediscovering A Lost Method Of Preserving ...  , this is what I used. I prepared them about a week in advance of making the fruit cake. Dark Fruit Cake (Wedding Cake) Ingredients For 5 lbs of Cake For 15 lbs of Cake Seeded Raisins 1 cup 1lb Seedless Raisins 1 cup 1lb Currants 1 cup 1lb Candied Lemon Peel,chopped 3 ounces 8 ounces Candied Orange Peel, chopped 3 ounces 8 ounces Candied Cherries, sliced 8 ounces 1 1/2lbs Candied Pineapple, sliced 8 ounces 1 1/2lbs Citron, thinly sliced 8 ounces 1 1/2lbs Pecans, coarsely chopped 5 ounces 1lb Almonds, blanched, chopped 5 ounces 1lb Flour for dredging 1/3 cup 1 cup Flour for mixing 1 1/3 cups 4 cups Soda ¼ TSP 1 TSP Cinnamon 1 TSP 3 TSP Allspice 1 TSP 3 TSP Mace ¼ TSP ¾ TSP Nutmeg, grated ¼ TSP ¾ TSP Butter 2/3 cups 1lb Light Brown Sugar 2/3 cup (packed) 1lb Eggs, Separated 4 12 Molasses 1/3 cup 1 cup Fruit Juice 3 TBSP ½ cup Brandy or Cider 3 TBSP ½ cup Preserved Strawberries 2/3 cup 1 pint Dredge fruit and nuts with flour. Sift mixing flour, measure, add soda and spices and sift again. Cream butter and add sugar gradually. Cream until light and fluffy. Add beaten egg yolks, mix well. Add molasses and fruit juice, brandy or cider, and strawberries. Mix well. Add fruit and nuts. Fold in dry ingredients about 1/3 at a time. Beat egg whites until stiff but not dry and fold into batter. Turn into well-greased pans which have been lined with parchment paper that has been cut to fit smoothly. Fill pans about ¾ full. Cover with more parchment paper to extend about 1 inch over the edge of the pan and tie with kitchen twine. Steam according to size: 1lb cake, steam for 2 hours 2lb cake, steam for 2 ½ hours 3lb cake, steam for 3 hours 5lb cake, steam for 3 ½ hours 10lb cake, steam for 4 ½ hours Remove from steamer and uncover. Brush tops with brown sugar glaze and decorate with fruit and nuts. Bake in a 250F oven about 1 ½ hours for cakes weighing 5 lbs or less. Bake for about 2 to 2 ½ hours for cakes weighing more than 5 lbs. Brush brown sugar glaze over cakes and on sides while cake is still warm. Wrap in waxed paper and store in an airtight container. Alternatively, you could wrap the cake in a clean cloth which has been saturated with brandy (or whatever liquor you want). About twice a month, add more brandy to cloth. Store in an airtight container. Brown Sugar Glaze Brown sugar, packed ½ cup Corn syrup, light, 1/3 cup Water 1/3 cup Lemon Juice, 2 TBSP Combine brown sugar, corn syrup, and water in pan. Place over low heat and bring to a slow boil. Boil 2 minutes. Add lemon juice and spread while still warm. Music curtesy of Epidemic Sound Song: Santa’s Little Helpers Artist: The Snowy Hill Singers