Fruit Cake - Aunt Myra

Yield: one 9-inch tube cake or 4 small bread-pan loaves

Ingredients

• 1 lb seeded raisins
• 1 1/2 cups water or fruit juice; 1 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup brandy
• 1/4 cup butter
• 2 eggs beaten
• 2 1/2 cups sifted flour
• 1 teas. B. powder
• 1 “ soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon cinnamon; 1/2 teaspoon cloves; 1/2 teaspoon allspice
• 1 teas cinnamon
• 1/2 cup chopped mixed peel, annotated citron peel
• 1/2 cup chopped nutmeats

Directions

1. Cook raisins, water and sugar 5 minutes.
2. Add butter - cool
3. Sift dry ingredients together
4. Add nuts + citron peel
5. Beat eggs add to cooled raisins. Mix all together good.
6. Bake in 9 inch tube pan lined with waxed paper - or 4 small bread pans -
7. Bake 1 1/2 hours in slow oven 275° to 300°

Timing

• 5 minutes
• 1 1/2 hours

Temperature

• cool; slow oven 275° to 300°

Equipment

• cooking vessel, sifter, mixing and beating utensils, one 9-inch tube pan lined with waxed paper or four small bread pans, and slow oven

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