Jeweled Fruitcake

Source

Author: Bob and Robin Young

Source: Gail McClellan Parker, Boise, Idaho

Web Page: www.rockinrs.com, http://boisefoodieguild.blogspot.com

Comments

Gail Says .... I am going to put this recipe in my Family Cookbook with Robin’s poem included. That is such a super poem—what a talent!

Robin´s Comments and Poem: Your Fruitcake is "The Redeemer" of all the fruitcakes I have ever tasted - Yours brings a quality of respectability that resurrects my faith in fruitcake. Yours being an honorable substance - worthy of lingering and analyzing - and then writing at least a salute if not a sonnet.

Ode To A Fruitcake
By Robin Young

Fruitcake, fruitcake, oh where have you been all my life?
Handmade maiden friend of a famed critic's wife.
Golden and cunning with nuts barely tropical,
Aged in the juice of southern Caribbean,
Tender assortment of fruits once dried, now revived.
I know at last why I am glad to be alive!

Degree of Difficulty

Degree of Difficulty: Moderately difficult

Oven Temperature: 300°F

Servings

Yield: 1 Cake

Ingredients

2

c

Apricots, dried

2

c

Pitted Dates

c

Brazil Nuts

1

c

Red and Green candied Pineapple, cut up

1

c

Red and Green Maraschino Cherries

¾

c

All-Purpose flour

¾

c

Sugar

½

t

Baking Powder

½

t

Salt

3

Eggs

t

Vanilla

1

Heat oven to 300 ºF.

2

Line loaf pan, 9x5x3 or 8½x4½x2½ inch inches, with aluminum foil; grease. Mix all ingredients; spread in pan. Bake until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, about 1¾ hours. If necessary, cover with aluminum foil during last 30 minutes of baking to prevent excessive browning. Remove from pan; cool. Wrap in plastic wrap; store in refrigerator.

3

Wrap in an absorbent fabric (old t-shirts work great), pour rum or brandy over it, wrap in plastic wrap, put in plastic bag, and refrigerate about a month (or more if I’m on top of things). I re-soak cloth every week with whatever spirit I decided on. Remove cloth, wrap in saran wrap at Christmas and present to only those people who are worthy of such a wonderful holiday delicacy.

Cooking Times

Preparation Time: 45 minutes

Cooking Time: 30 minutes

Inactive Time: 30 days

Total Time: 30 days, 1hour 30 minutes