Favorite fruitcakes was [Sca-cooks] Flying Haggis

[Elaine Koogler]

Again, referencing what I've inherited through my family....my Mom used to use
an applesauce cake recipe, and added other fruit as available:

  2      cups          sugar
   2      cups          chopped pecans
   2      cups          applesauce
   3 1/2  cups          flour
   2      teaspoons     cinnamon
   1      cup           butter
   4      each          eggs
   4      cups          raisins
   2      teaspoons     baking soda
     1/2  teaspoon      salt
   1      teaspoon      nutmeg
   1      teaspoon      cloves

Mix raisins and flour and set aside.  Mix baking soda and applesauce and
set aside.  Mix rest of ingredients and add to flour mixture.  Add
applesauce mixture last.  Bake at 325 or 350 for 1 hour 15 minutes.

NB:  I bake these Thanksgiving weekend.  I soak them in Takara Plum
Wine, wrap in a dish towel and store in an airtight container.  About
once a week, open and resoak if needed.  Ready at Christmas.

Mama would add fig preserves, ones that she had made herself...she drained off
the syrup and saved it.  She also made cherry preserves and did the same thing
with them.  As an added attraction, she would combine what she had drained off
of the two preserves and serve it over pancakes or waffles!  I don't have the
preserves she had, but often will reconstitute dried figs with a sweet wine and
use those.  I have, for the past couple of years, added citron as well...I find
it goes well with what's already in the cake!

Kiri

Morgan Cain wrote:

> My favourite fruitcake is actually the recipe for inside a Black Bun.  It's
> very moist and dark, and I use whatever fruits are handy when making.  Even
> people who declare they hate fruitcake have loved this - probably because it
> is just fruit and cake, nothing in strange colours or candied and no nuts.
>
> Technically, that's all a fruitcake is, and I've tried a number of old
> recipes (Victorian and earlier) with quite a bit of success.  I don't know
> if Stout Cake would qualify but it works well, it's a cake made with
> Guinness and currants.
>
>                   ---= Morgan (who should be baking for New Year's)
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