Jane's Fruit Cake
Recipe ingredients are divided into three segments with special instructions for each.
1 lb candid pineapple
1 lb candid red and green cherries
1 lb white raisins
3/4 lb. chopped pitted dates
1 lb pecans
1 cup flour
***** Chop all fruits and nuts. Use the cup of flour to flour all fruit and nuts. (This is to keep them from sticking together.)
2 cups of flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
***** Mix by sifting these ingredients together.
1 cup brown sugar (packed)
1 cup shortening
1 cup dark corn syrup
1/2 cup milk
4 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
***** Cream sugar and shortening. Add ingredients from section two of the list (dry ingredients), corn syrup, and milk alternating. Add unbeaten eggs one at a time. Add vanilla. Mix Well.
Fold into sugar, syrup, shortening mixture fruit and nuts. Use a large spoon to mix this, do not use a mixer. This recipe makes about 5 pounds of fruit cake. Cook at 275degrees until done (approximately 1 1/2 hours but this depends on the size of the pans used). Cake pans should be greased well and lined (bottom) with parchment paper that has been greased well.
Added option with extra fruit. The tops of the fruit cake can be decorated after the cake has cooled. Brush the top of each cooled cake with corn syrup then arrange pieces of candid pineapple and cherries on the top.
Note: I must admit I like fruit cake. This is my grandmother's recipe. She prepared fruit cake each year. She always decorated the top of the cakes with extra fruit. The recipe does not include fruit in the measurements. I normally buy extra and use the extra candid fruit for other recipes. I can remember as a small child picking the extra cherries off the top and always getting in trouble for doing so; it was the same mistake as taking an extra sugar rose off of a birthday cake that was not for you.
Christmas and the Holiday Season are about celebrations and tradition. For my family my grandmother's fruit was a tradition. My mother still bakes fruit cake for our family. I hope you and your family have or can find dishes that are part of your holiday tradition. Cooking is really about sharing and it is so much more than just food!
Enjoy and do not be afraid to try something different to make this your own dish!
Marilynn
www.giftsetc.com
1 lb candid pineapple
1 lb candid red and green cherries
1 lb white raisins
3/4 lb. chopped pitted dates
1 lb pecans
1 cup flour
***** Chop all fruits and nuts. Use the cup of flour to flour all fruit and nuts. (This is to keep them from sticking together.)
2 cups of flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
***** Mix by sifting these ingredients together.
1 cup brown sugar (packed)
1 cup shortening
1 cup dark corn syrup
1/2 cup milk
4 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
***** Cream sugar and shortening. Add ingredients from section two of the list (dry ingredients), corn syrup, and milk alternating. Add unbeaten eggs one at a time. Add vanilla. Mix Well.
Fold into sugar, syrup, shortening mixture fruit and nuts. Use a large spoon to mix this, do not use a mixer. This recipe makes about 5 pounds of fruit cake. Cook at 275degrees until done (approximately 1 1/2 hours but this depends on the size of the pans used). Cake pans should be greased well and lined (bottom) with parchment paper that has been greased well.
Added option with extra fruit. The tops of the fruit cake can be decorated after the cake has cooled. Brush the top of each cooled cake with corn syrup then arrange pieces of candid pineapple and cherries on the top.
Note: I must admit I like fruit cake. This is my grandmother's recipe. She prepared fruit cake each year. She always decorated the top of the cakes with extra fruit. The recipe does not include fruit in the measurements. I normally buy extra and use the extra candid fruit for other recipes. I can remember as a small child picking the extra cherries off the top and always getting in trouble for doing so; it was the same mistake as taking an extra sugar rose off of a birthday cake that was not for you.
Christmas and the Holiday Season are about celebrations and tradition. For my family my grandmother's fruit was a tradition. My mother still bakes fruit cake for our family. I hope you and your family have or can find dishes that are part of your holiday tradition. Cooking is really about sharing and it is so much more than just food!
Enjoy and do not be afraid to try something different to make this your own dish!
Marilynn
www.giftsetc.com
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